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Rita Dove: An American Poet
''Rita Dove: An American Poet'' is an American documentary film produced, directed and edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. It is a biographical sketch of U.S. Poet Laureate and National Medal of Arts winner Rita Dove. The film explores the poet's life beyond the otherwise extensive and readily available information in Internet and Social Media,〔Maurer. David. ''The Daily Progress''. January 31, 2014.〕 exposing fundamental facts of Dove's childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960s.〔Press Release. University of Virginia. February 3, 2014 ("Film About Rita Dove Explores the Poet's Formative Years" )〕〔(Crozet Library. Jefferson - Madison Regional Library System )〕
The film, distributed by Filmakers Library and Alexander Street Press, USA,〔Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press. Official Website.〕 premiered at The Paramount, on January 31, 2014,〔YouTube broadcast of the opening night including printed programs, street scenes, and principal speaker Boyd Tinsley 〕 presented as a Martin Luther King Day headliner by the Office for Diversity and Equity, Lifetime Learning, Alumni and Parent Engagement and the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia〔Bromley, Anne E. Rita Dove, Michael Eric Dyson Headline U.Va.'s 2014 MLK Commemoration | UVA Today | Charlottesville, VA | January 10, 2014.〕 Opening remarks honoring Rita Dove by Boyd Tinsley. ''Rita Dove: An American Poet'' was shot in digital format, HD.〔Bromley, Anne E. "Film About Rita Dove Explores the Poet's Formative Years" ''UVA Today'', February 3, 2014〕〔Black Graduate & Professional Student Organization at the University of Virginia (BGPSO)〕
==Synopsis==
The film is made of a series of in-depth, on-camera interviews with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded between September 2012 and October 2013. These interviews were edited with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection. The intimacy of the dialogue between Rita Dove and Montes-Bradley's camera provide a rare personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic passions.〔Heritage Film Project Website〕 Most of these images are the results of the efforts of Rita Dove's father (Ray A. Dove) to record family life in the 1950s and 1960s.〔Community Martin Luther King Celebration | University of Virginia〕 Mr. Ray Dove recorded in 8mm and Super 8mm birthdays, the opening of gifts on Christmas Day year after year, holidays and family excursions. According to the filmmaker, "Rita's father is omnipresent and perhaps the silent protagonist of the film as he captured images of Rita which have become fundamental clues to the evolution of the suburban middle class African American child into the celebrated poet we know and recognize."〔Dr. Martin, Marcus. Opening speech during the premiere of the film.〕
''Rita Dove: An American Poet'' is structured in eleven parts (chapters): Prologue, nine consecutive "books" - simulating the preference shown by Dove in recent works - and the Epilogue. Each book, numbered with Roman numerals, targets a different aspect in the life and whereabouts of Rita Dove, each of them introduced by the poet reading a poem significant to the theme. Cinematically, these readings are set apart from the core interview by being shot at night and in black & white, although the director continues to approach his subject through a decidedly poetic lens.〔Garretson, Lawrence A. "Rita Dove talks about a new film on her life and work”. ''C-Ville Weekly'', January 29, 2914.〕 The themes of the nine film "books" include Childhood in Akron, grandfather Thomas (''Thomas and Beulah''), Great Migration, Dove's relationship to music (with the cello in particular), her relationship to her father, being non-religious today after growing up "in the bosom of the Church", her encounter with Mexico and the Spanish culture which would eventually prompt her to write "Parsley", one of her most celebrated poems, the segregated beaches of Florida and the Deep South of some of her relatives. The 1963 March on Washington as well as John F. Kennedy's and Martin Luther King's assassinations play an important part in the film and the characterization of its subject. The ninth and last "book" covers the time spent at the University of Tübingen on a Fulbright Scholarship. It is in Germany that Rita Dove comes in contact with a number of issues of great significance in her life and influence on her work. Finally, the epilogue presents itself as a dialogue between poet and film director. ''Rita Dove: An American Poet'' concludes in the mid-seventies, right before Rita Dove returns from Europe to the United States to eventually become one of the most celebrated poets of her generation. The final credits are preceded by dedications to Kofi Awoonor and Elisabeth Viebahn.
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