Nia June, Kirby Griffin, and others
A Black Girl’s Country
2018
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- Artist: Nia June
- Artist: Kirby Griffin
- Artist: APoetNamedNate
- Poet: Nia June
- Composer: APoetNamedNate
- Performer: Wifty Bangura
- Cinematographer: Kirby Griffin
A Black Girl’s Country
2018
Physical Qualities
Single-channel video (color, sound), Duration: 4 minutes, 24 seconds
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number
2021.181
In A Black Girl’s Country, the Black girl’s complexity is laid open and housed in a soft jubilee that trumpets through us, “finally, we are home.” Featuring more than 50 members of the Baltimore community, this film showcases women and girls, across multiple generations, radiating pure joy and embracing their unapologetic freedom in a space they truly own. This multifaceted experience of Black womanhood is a collaborative effort with director and spoken word artist NIA JUNE, cinematographer Kirby Griffin, and creative director and musician APoetNamedNate. Through moving portraits, original poetry, and music, the three Baltimore natives offer a renewed gaze at the Black woman and the world she embodies and ask viewers: “what do you know of A Black Girl’s Country?”
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