Events Calendar
"These Hands"
April 7, 2008 ( 04:30PM - 06:00PM )
Monday, April 7, 2008: “These Hands” (1992, 45 min.)
Director: Flora M'mbugu-Schelling; in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles
The camera acts as a compassionate witness to a day in the life of Mozambican women working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam. Most of the women are refugees who spend their days painfully and painstakingly, manually mining gravel from the scarred landscape to be used for concrete and urban building projects. The film has an almost meditative quality as these women, lowest in the ranks of the global economy, share endless work, collaborative childcare, and singing and dancing at the end of a day's work.
Speaker: Ivy Wilson, Assistant Professor of English