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Hale County This Morning, This Evening Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 76 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
- Screens with: Baby Brother
About the Film
Filmmaker RaMell Ross will attend in person for discussion with local filmmaker Robb Moss, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College, and a member of the film’s advisory team.
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 far beyond.
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening is not an issue film. Rather, like the best documentaries, it creates its own form from the material at hand and invites you to watch it in this new way.” – Hyperallergic
World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Official Selection of 2018 New Directors/New Films and 2018 True/False Film Festival.
About the Filmmakers
RaMell Ross Director
RaMell Ross (Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Sound, Editor) earned a BA in both English and Sociology from Georgetown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and his writing has appeared in such outlets as the NY Times and Walker Arts Center. He was part of […] Read More
Screens with: Baby Brother
Baby Brother Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 14 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
About the Film
A look at a young man experiencing a summer impasse after moving back in with his parents.
About the Filmmakers
Kamau Bilal Director
Kamau is a filmmaker, film editor, and documentary director of photography working in Missouri. Recently he photographed the HBO-commissioned documentary Stories Women Tell (2016 Tribeca Film Festival), and as an editor he cut A Stray (2016 SXSW Film Festival). He directed Crown Candy, co-directed with David Wilson in 2016, and What Kind of Man. Baby Brother is his latest short. He teaches editing and cinematography classes at the University of Missouri in the School of Visual Studies.
- Biography sourced from FestivalScopePro
