Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami - True/False Film Fest

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

From Jamaican family dinner to the world stage, iconic Grace Jones magically dances between down-to-earth moments and pure transcendence.
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Runtime: 1:55
In-person: creative consultant Oisin Byrne
Fest Year: 2018
This impressionistic, prismatic portrait simultaneously illuminates and preserves the enigmatic power of the multi-hyphenate performer Grace Jones. Operating predominantly as a one-woman crew, director Sophie Fiennes captures warm, down-to-earth footage of the iconic Jones reminiscing at her Jamaican family’s Spanish Town dinner table, chatting with her son in the back of a Parisian taxi cab and calling bullshit on a recording studio manager. As we watch Jones navigate these distinct spaces and relationships, we come to understand how they all inform one another as well as her astonishing stage persona, which Fiennes gloriously documents in a Dublin concert hall (the film is generous with its exhilarating performance material). (CB)