Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage

Directed by Zora Neale Hurston • 1928 • United States

While a student of anthropologist Franz Boas at Columbia University, Zora Neale Hurston embarked on a journey through Alabama and Florida, using a 16 mm camera to capture life among the rural African American communities she found there. Hurston would later become a renowned author, best remembered for her 1937 novel THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD.