“It Took 31 Years”: Zeinabu irene Davis on Compensation

Because I had loved so deeply,  Because I had loved so long,  God in His great compassion  Gave me the gift of song.  Because I have loved so vainly,  And sung with such faltering breath,  The Master in infinite mercy  Offers the boon of Death. — “Compensation” (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation (1999) tells dual stories of pairs of lovers (both played by Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks) at the beginning and end of the 20th century. The film is uniquely attuned to deaf culture, American prejudice and two distinct pandemics. Creative in her […] The post “It Took 31 Years”: Zeinabu irene Davis on Compensation first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

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“It Took 31 Years”: Zeinabu irene Davis on Compensation

Because I had loved so deeply,  Because I had loved so long,  God in His great compassion  Gave me the gift of song.  Because I have loved so vainly,  And sung with such faltering breath,  The Master in infinite mercy  Offers the boon of Death. — “Compensation” (1906) by Paul Laurence Dunbar Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation (1999) tells dual stories of pairs of lovers (both played by Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks) at the beginning and end of the 20th century. The film is uniquely attuned to deaf culture, American prejudice and two distinct pandemics. Creative in her […] The post “It Took 31 Years”: Zeinabu irene Davis on Compensation first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.