Musings of an Empress

I am an EMPRESS! I write scripts. I direct films. I teach the youths.

[blackhistoryalbum]

THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS | 1947

African American girls walking the streets of Harlem, NYC, 1947. Photo by Morris Engel.

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[rempress]

If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston (via rempress)

[lostinurbanism]

Photographs taken in various cities across Florida by Alex Webb (1980s-1990s) via Magnum Photos

[jamigreenfield]

A place to sit.

[70sbestblackalbums]

John Coltrane

[hoodoogardens]

A baptism being held at Moon Lake, Mississippi, 1994. Photography by Norman, Mauskopf

[fireairshadow]

Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Films watched in 2021.

18: Residue (Merawi Gerima, 2020)

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

[apicturespeaks]

Coffy, Jack Hill

[herheadinfilmspodcast]

Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992)

[tarkovskologist]

Abbas Kiarostami, 1990s

[modelsof-color]

Camila Simões by Lufre for L'Officiel Brasil Magazine - Feb 2021  

[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat with his sister Jeanine Basquiat at the opening of his exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City, May 1984.

Photos by Andy Warhol

[postingwhileblack]

“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music”

-Nina Simone

[auteurstearoom]

“Film buffs who don’t live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it’s like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamor associated with them. But the truth is, it’s not like that. It’s very different. It’s hard work. If you were suddenly catapulted into that situation—without any training—you would say after it was over: ‘Oh, God! You’re kidding! You mean, this is what it’s like? This is what they put you through?’ Yes, as a matter of fact, it is like this—and it’s often worse. People have tried to describe the film business, but it’s impossible to describe because it’s so crazy. You must know your craft inside out and then pick up the rules as you go along.” John Carpenter (pictured on the set of Big Trouble in Little China)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Films watched in 2021.

83: Samba Traoré (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1992)

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)