Your cart is empty.
No upcoming screenings.
How does one express the reality of individuals whose public image, lives, and humanity originate in exploitation? Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film.
In the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time, the human soul, history, environmental wonder, sociology, and cosmic phenomena, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat, and the hearts, of people in the Black Belt region of the U.S., as well as black people far beyond.
Fri. 1/19, 11:30 a.m., Prospector, PCYEAR 2017
SECTION U.S. Doc
COUNTRY U.S.A.
RUN TIME 76 min
COMPANY Louverture Films
WEBSITE http://www.halecountyfilm.com
EMAIL info@louverturefilms.com
PHONE (212) 229 3960
Director | |
---|---|
Writer | |
Produced By | |
Co Writer | |
Cinematographer | |
Editor | |
Executive Producers | |
Associate Producer | |
Advisors | |
Featuring |
RaMell Ross was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and a New Frontier Artist in Residence at MIT Media Lab in 2015. In 2016 he was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, winner of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, and a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow. In 2017, he received a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is his first feature documentary.