Daniah La Metisse & Other Tales of Love, Death & the Sea (Church of Film)

A shorts and featurettes program of love, death, and the sea! Our headline film, DAINAH LA DAINAH LA METISSE (1931) is an early masterpiece by French master Jean Gremillon. A strange, stylized and alluring film, DAINAH is a jazzy, nightmarish poem about racial tension and sublimated colonial guilt, set amidst the strange parties and magic-laced maskarades on an ocean liner. Also included will be Dmitri Kirsanoff’s haunting experimental narrative, MENILMONTANT (1928), and Jean Epstein’s beautiful LE TEMPESTAIRE (1947).