Review: 'In Our Mothers' Gardens' allows Black women to collectively share their stories

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Shantrelle P. Lewis' 'In Our Mothers' Gardens' provides a space for Black women, including #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, to honor their histories.

The successes of Lewis’ film lie in the filmmaker’s ability to cultivate a space of comfort and communal acknowledgment for the women seen and heard here. While at times repetitive in nature, the intention behind a film such as “In Our Mothers’ Gardens” feels more akin to replicating the togetherness of real-life encounters rather than editing, scripting and structuring down these conversations into more shiny, mutable parts.

Lewis’ project is strongest when it divests its more static interview structure and instead parallels its narrative gestures with the real-life movements and words of its subjects. Most enchanting here is undoubtedly professor and priest of Obatala in the Lukumi/Yoruba tradition Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie, a humorous and insightful figure whose limbs melodically jangle under the weight of her self-made jewelry as she speaks.

While “In Our Mothers’ Gardens” stumbles to find its footing at times, Lewis’ work here often feels as if it figures outside of the structures of filmmaking practice. It aspires less to the twin cinematic impulses of consumption and skillful interpretation and more toward both a model and document of communion honoring the energy implicit with these shared histories of Black women.

 

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