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An Ecstatic Experience

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Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2015 • United States

Employing intricately hand-altered archival footage of Black women speaking on the push for liberation and freedom, director Ja’Tovia Gary crafts a meditative invocation of transcendence as a means of restoration.

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