{"id":13008,"date":"2019-02-18T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13008"},"modified":"2019-02-17T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:38:38","slug":"black-mother-2018-khalik-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13008","title":{"rendered":"Black Mother (2018, Khalik Allah)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was watching movies from last year’s Rotterdam and Sundance festivals, and now for a week on True\/False movies. This is a transition film, premiering in last year’s True\/False and showing up in this year’s Rotterdam (in Bright Future, with Long Day’s Journey Into Night<\/em>, Manta Ray<\/em>, Dead Horse Nebula<\/em>). Opens with street scenes, talking with prostitutes, a squarish frame with v-hold issues and no sync sound, and I thought this might be a tough watch, then the editing sets it free – jumping around Jamaica meeting all sorts of people, beautiful photography and a vague structure around birth and death. It’s a poem of a movie, even less narrative than Hale County<\/a><\/em> was, and at least as good.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The 16mm film full of light flares is interspersed with gliding HD. No subtitles and I can’t make out half the words, and zero sync sound, though sometimes we seem to be hearing the person we’re seeing speak, so it’s being shifted on purpose. So much Christianity – then an explanation for why that is, then an intro to rastafarianism and discussion of weed. I am an uncultured dummy who knows nothing about Jamaica or its culture, but there’s an echo effect on the end of sound clips and I wondered if this was dub-influenced. When the movie ended I was trying to remember how it started, watched the first half again before realizing that I was just going to keep playing it forever on a loop. Vikram Murthi<\/a> saw it at T\/F and notes that “the film is in direct conversation with the work by the Black Audio Film Collective<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching movies from last year’s Rotterdam and Sundance festivals, and now for a week on True\/False movies. This is a transition film, premiering in last year’s True\/False and showing up in this year’s Rotterdam (in Bright Future, with Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Manta Ray, Dead Horse Nebula). Opens with street scenes, talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2535,2536,2245],"class_list":["post-13008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-jamaica","tag-khalik-allah","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13026,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions\/13026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}