Julie Dash Four Women
Film

Four Women (1978)

Directed By

Thursday, October 25, National Gallery of Art
Runtime: 7 min

Set to the stirring music of the same name, Four Women explores longstanding stereotypical perceptions of black women from oblique and poignant angles. Film print provided courtesy of Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University.

Part of “Say Her Name” Program

Check out some amazing objects in the museum's collection related to this film.
Coin bank in the form of "Mammy" Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Collection of James M. Caselli and Jonathan Mark Scharer

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