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Prismatic Ground Presents

Reckless Eyeballing

13m

Directed by Christopher Harris • 2004 • United States

Taking its name from the Jim Crow–era prohibition against Black men looking at white women, this hand-processed, optically printed amalgam is a hypnotic inspection of sexual desire, racial identity, and film history.

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