Illusions
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Directed by Julie Dash, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Anyone who has seen Julie Dash’s magnificent and thoroughly unique feature film Daughters of the Dust doesn’t need me to tell them about the filmmaker’s unique sensibilities and her passion for depicting the lives of black women on film. “African Nun” is an adaptation of an Alice Walker story, and it served as Dash’s thesis film. “Four Women” is a film interpretation of the famous Nina Simone song. “Illusions” is an imaginative piece set during WWII in which a black woman studio executive who passes for white comes to grips with a society that perpetuates false images.

This article appears in April 14 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.