The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

Filmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT is a multitextured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of boldly experimental techniques and materials—including direct animation on archival 16 mm film, vox populi interviews, and montage editing—to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance while interrogating the histories of those bodies and lives as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.