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- BFI identifier450517
- Date1995-09-23 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- Synopsis"An imaginary biography of Audre Lorde - African American, lesbian, feminist professor, mother, visionary and "warrior poet" - who died of breast cancer, metastised to her liver, in 1992. Avowing the subjectivity and desire with which we view our forebears, the film meditates on those moments in a life lived with passion that steel the political will and irradiate the poetic consciousness." Transmitted in the `Dyke TV' slot on Channel Four in September 1995. (Synopsis) Film exploring the life and work of America's leading black lesbian poet, Audre Lorde. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Sonali Fernando
[Subject of Film]: Audre Lorde
Production Company: Peripheral Vision
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Title
The Body of a Poet A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, 1934-1992 (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsThe Body of a Poet (Our Dead Behind Us) (BAVP) - Correspondence relating to the distribution of the film 'Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, 1934-1992' [a Black Arts Video Project award film co-financed by the Arts Council of England and Channel Four]. Includes correspondence between Richard Gooderick and Alicia Matthews, Arts Council Films, and Barbara Nicholls, Producer, Peripheral Vision. - ACE-1-21-3
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- Black Arts Video Project
Series Work - 800076
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +The Body of a Poet A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, 1934-1992
Work - 450517 - 1995-09-23 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +The Body of a Poet A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, 1934-1992
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