The austinfilmfest's New Voice Award winner Nikyatu Jusu looks at horror with a Black woman's gaze.
The abject terrors of motherhood are a fertile subject for horror, and permeate the soul of director and writer Nikyatu Jusu's first feature film,. It's a multifaceted exploration of motherhood, from the point of view of an undocumented immigrant who finds a job as a nanny to save up money to bring over her own child from Senegal.and Kasi Lemmons'among her favorites."These are mothers navigating grief, navigating trauma," Jusu elaborated.
"I think that water is such a vessel of history for those of us who are not the center of most stories, those who are of non-European and nonwhite lineage. Everyone can acknowledge water's capacity to create destruction."also explores supernatural forces that Jusu called"figures of rebellion," forces utilized by the African diaspora to survive the horror of being taken from their homeland."I love culturally specific folklore," the filmmaker said.
With her first feature off the ground, Jusu plans to continue navigating the horrors of what it means to be a mother."I'm constantly navigating the dance of exploring the monster externally and the monster in us all," she added."The genre allows me to center Black women protagonists in particular in a genre that ushers in a wider audience, because I don't think [an] American [or] global audience is conditioned to see the world through the Black woman's gaze.
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