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The Flaherty Presents: Opacity

America

29m

Directed by Garrett Bradley • 2019 • United States

Taking as its starting point the recently rediscovered Bert Williams feature LIME KILN CLUB FIELD DAY (1913)—the first known film to feature an all-Black cast—Garrett Bradley’s extraordinary new short imagines an entire lost lineage of African American cinema, where images of Black joy, strength, and beauty live on forever in a free-floating celluloid dream space. Shot in gorgeously poetic black and white and set to an intricately layered audio collage, AMERICA is an ecstatic sensory experience that rewrites our visual history in the name of Black empowerment.

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