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Jazz Slave Ships (1998)
Directed by Elspeth Sage, Paul Wong
Documentary · 15m
Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coast in Whitehaven, Cumbria (the last English slaving port), in an 18th century bonded warehouse used to store liquor and guns used in the slave trade; and on the East Coast in Hull, Yorkshire in Wilberforce House, the birthplace of the anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of anti-slavery. The production took place over a 3-week period that began Sept. 30, 1996.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Elspeth Sage, Paul Wong
- Writer
- Vanessa Richards, Jan Wade
- Editor
- Paul Wong
Details
- Release date
- 1998-10-01
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Production
- Locus +, On Edge