BLACK BERLIN BLACK – UNITED POLYPHONIC BLACK EYES ON BLACK BODIES Film

In English

At the center of this film is Savanna Morgan, actress*, author, singer. For Blues for Mrs. she invented a character: Mrs.

The film shows Mrs. wandering through Berlin at night, preparing for performances and on stage. Black women in the blues, artists from the 1910s to the 1950s, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, are quoted and embodied – until historical references are made right up to the present day. 

Eloquent in prose, poetry, spoken word and blues, Mrs., this blues personality, explores the relationship of Black women to beauty and pain. She shows the struggle for self-determination and the protective power of the blues. In its historical dimension, the film Blues for Mrs. becomes a study of how class, race, gender and sexuality intersect. And it shows how, under this pressure, the need develops to express the internalized struggles and thus liberate oneself to a certain extent: through the blues. Blues for Mrs. is a tribute, a testimony to the struggle, is blues.

The performance will be followed by a discussion with Savanna Morgan.