Martina Attille

Born, 1959 in St Lucia

Martina Attille was a member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective. She was born in St Lucia in the Caribbean and has lived in London since 1961. She is a film maker “for whom representations of black women remain a central and complex narrative device.” (From a biographical outline in the exhibition catalogue Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, which toured to galleries in the UK and the USA in 1997 and 1998.) For the Rhapsodies in Black catalogue she contributed a short essay Still (pp. 154 - 159).

Dreaming Rivers (1988) is Attille’s enduring testament to her distinctive approach to film making. The film was the subject of a chapter by Amna Malik - Migratory Aesthetics: (Dis)placing the Black Maternal Subject in Martina Attille’s Dreaming Rivers (1988) - in “Black” British Aesthetics Today. Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

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