Sathima's Windsong (2010)

overview : Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea Benjamin. In her Chelsea Hotel apartment, home for over thirty years, she patches together her journeys, from apartheid's 'pattern of brokenness', to a chance meeting and recording with Duke Ellington in Paris, to making a life in New York. The narrative of her journeys are inter-woven with her music and the musings of folks who know her work. Like her haunting song, Windsong, the film is a meditation on displacement, exile and belonging.

Release Date : Jan 01, 2010

Runtime : 55m

Genre : History  Documentary  

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Countries : St. Helena

Keywords : hotel, africa, jazz singer or musician, south africa, cape town, south africa