SEEKING: Mapping A Gullah Geechee Story
Exec Produced by the Umaah Chroma Creatives for the International African American Museum (IAAM) Charleston, SC SEEKING: A Gullah Geechee Story is an epic, cinematic art installation Written and Directed by Julie Dash with Cinematography by Bradford Young. The coming-of-age story is about Gullah Geechee children who set out to prove their spiritual maturity by embarking upon solo journeys in the sea island woods for self-reflection and discovery.
Seeking | The Gullah Religious Tradition
The documentary, Seeking | The Gullah Religious Tradition is an in-depth look into a cultural practice that is seldom shared outside of the culture. For the Gullah Geechee, joining the church, at one time, was an ancestral West African tradition called seeking. The practice was based in the thought that since God and the ancestors communicated through dreams, the interpretation of the dream, represented achieving spirituality. The process and resulting dream can become life-altering and is often something that one may never forget. Seeking was mostly experienced on the coastal sea islands from North Carolina to Florida and eventually stopped as recently as the early 1970s.
JONATHAN GREEN'S 'SEEKING' TRAILER
A Trailer for the documentary 'Seeking' by award winning Director, Charles Allan Smith. A moving film documenting celebrated artist, Jonathan Green as he brings to life on canvas the African American ritual of Seeking. Pulling from his very own memories as a young man, he journeys back through his ancestry to paint, 'Seeking', honoring the African American slaves that lived and were buried at Clermont Cemetery on the grounds of the Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina. Filled with the spiritual sounds of famed singer, Marlena Smalls, Seeking celebrates and acknowledges the significant contributes and sacrifices that African Americans made throughout American history.