Black Mother
First screened in November 2019
Director: Khalik Allah. Immersive three-part documentary surveying a cross-section of life in contemporary Jamaica, implicating some of the filmmaker's own family history. Twitter Capsule:
The jagged, wide-angle mosaic of Hale County. The intense immersion of Shakedown. Full of vitalities, fond and pained.
VOR:⑤
Major trust in its audience. Audacious respect for its subjects. Even aspects that appear weak, like its gender politics, get riskier and more complex.
