Julie Dash
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
Directed by Raven Jackson
influenced by Daughters of the Dust (1991)
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Jackson has cited Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust as an influence, and, as in that groundbreaking 1991 film, each scene is so deliberately composed that it conveys a wealth of information and emotion.
With Julie Dash’s seminal Daughters of the Dust cited as an influence, Jackson depicts the outdoors of rural Mississippi in a natural and almost spellbinding way. The first scene depicts Mack fishing with her father, and we see her feel the scales of a catfish she places back in the river. We also hear the slow clicking of the fishing rod as her father teaches her. “Not too quick,” Isaiah says. That instruction is the perfect summarisation of this film’s style.
Cousin Viola (Cheryl Lynn Bruce), who has the forethought to hire a photographer to document their journey in Mr. Snead (Tommy Hicks, in a kind of Keith Carradine in Pretty Baby capacity), is a staunch Christian living in Philadelphia.