Summaries

Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea Benjamin. In her Chelsea Hotel apartment, home for over thirty years, she patches together her journeys, from apartheid's 'pattern of brokenness', to a chance meeting and recording with Duke Ellington in Paris, to making a life in New York. The narrative of her journeys are inter-woven with her music and the musings of folks who know her work. Like her haunting song, Windsong, the film is a meditation on displacement, exile and belonging.—Anonymous

Details

Genres
  • History
  • Biography
  • Music
  • Documentary
Release date Jul 15, 2008
Countries of origin Saint Helena
Language English

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Tech specs

Runtime 55m
Color Color
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