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Compensation (4K Restoration) x woo-woo
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
You’re invited to take part in a grounding 20-minute breath practice to help you gently release tension and settle into your body. This accessible practice is open to everyone—no experience needed. Together, shift from the busyness of the mind into the stillness of the body through mindful breath and awareness. It’s a chance to slow down, arrive fully in the present moment, and create a sense of calm from within. The breath practice will take place in advance of a very special screening of the 1999 film Compensation, along with woo-woo as part of the Self-Care Sunday series.
The experience will have ASL/English interpretation.
ON SCREEN: Compensation
1999. Directed by Zeinabu irene Davis. Runtime: 1hr 35min. Not Rated.
A poignant portrait of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of love at both ends of the twentieth century, Zeinabu irene Davis’s film is a groundbreaking story of inclusion and visibility. In dual performances, Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks play an educated dressmaker and an illiterate migrant in 1910s Chicago, and a resilient graphic artist and an endearing librarian living in the same city eight decades later. Employing archival photography, an original score blending ragtime and African percussion, and lyrical editing, Davis deftly intertwines the two couples’ stories in ways both tender and tragic. Compensation is a landmark of American independent cinema that confronts the social forces and prejudices that hinder love.