The narrative short “Dear Mama . . .” shows the varieties of grief, and the loneliness of the experience. Watch here.
“We all grieve so differently,” the filmmaker Winter Dunn says. “And I think that, as adults, we forget that our children are experiencing their own process of grief that has nothing to do with you and has everything to do with you.”on September 13, 1996, the rapper Tupac Shakur died, following six days at the hospital in critical condition after he was shot in Las Vegas at a stoplight, at the age of twenty-five. “Dear Mama . . .
The film centers on Tanisha, a young Black teen-ager living in Los Angeles. Her mother has just died, and Tanisha and her father, Nate, are preparing to move out of their house. She is in the living room, packing the last of her things, when a news broadcast announces that Shakur has died. For Tanisha, already in mourning, the loss is devastating.
The two come to an impasse when Tanisha wants to attend the vigil that night on Slauson Avenue. The two have been absorbed in familial grief and preparing for their own transition, but she wants to go out into the world beyond the drooping ficus tree in the almost-empty house’s back yard.
Tanisha and Nate spend most of the film grieving quietly, and separately, but their relationship is the film’s emotional core. “I don't see enough father-daughter dynamics onscreen, specifically in Black families,” Dunn told me. And when Black fathers and daughters are depicted, it’s often overly simplified and sentimental—“a real perfect dad who never wants you to date ever.” Dunn, who is Black, felt it was important to show a more complicated reality.
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