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Josephine Baker Centennial Celebration: St. Louis Public Library San Francisco Documentary Festival Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival Western Illinois University screening; NAACP cosponsored event Celebrating Josephine Baker jazz concert, with SECRET film 2006 Big Muddy Film Festival 2005 St. Louis International Film Festival Webster University Film Series - Alumni Weekend Film Festival 2005 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase |
Film
Synopsis SECRET, the documentary, is a film adaptation of a 2005
multimedia performance art workshop collaboration of media artists,
rap singer/DJs and actors from St. Louis, the birthplace of Josephine
Baker. The various media incarnations of SECRET range from public
art wall projections to interactive media gallery work that will
be produced in locations throughout the world through 2006 in
celebration of the 100th anniversary of Josephine Baker's birth.
Drawn from over a thousand FBI files and archival material, SECRET
tells the story of St. Louis born entertainer Josephine Baker
and two men who pursued her: media personality Walter Winchell
and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Mixing old and new sound and
images to link the present and past, SECRET uncovers Baker's little
known identity as a global human rights activist.