LES FILMS DE L’AIR
France. 2018
Station to Station has been a founding partner in the independent Paris-based production company Les Films de l’Air since its inception in 2011. Les films de l'air produces and promotes innovative, socially-engaged documentary films. The company also curates original film series both in Europe and in the United-States.
In 2018, Station to Station produced Like Dolls I’ll Rise, a work of powerful original poetry starring 200 one-of-a-kind Black dolls created between 1840 and 1940, by anonymous African-American women, who tell a story of resistance, love and identity. Gathered together by Debbie Neff, the film is inhabited by the voices of women who bring the history of black America, racism and segregation, out of the shadows. Photographic documents also place them in the context of black and white children who had similar dolls. The film was first shown at the Maison Rouge contemporary Art Center in Paris, as part of a large exhibition on American Black Dolls - and has since traveled all around the festival circuit.
