🎬 The Director’s Shelf — Julie Dash

🎬 The Director’s Shelf — Entry No. 5

The Origin PointBefore there was a shelf… there was Julie.

Daughters of the Dust wasn’t just a film. It was a lineage. A slow, sacred offering of language, memory, and matriarchy. Julie Dash painted cinema like a woman who had always known that the past lives in our marrow. That a whisper could be as loud as a war cry. That to remember is to resurrect.

She didn’t direct a movie. She conjured a ritual.

On my shelf, Julie Dash is the foundation. The ancestral hum beneath every frame I’ve ever loved.

She is why I write. Why I sip slow. Why I look backward before leaping forward.

Because every director who dares to tell our stories—owes a bow to hers.