2014 | 00:08:00 | Brazil / United States | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | 16mm film
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles
Tags: African-American, Experimental Film, Memory, Migration, Music, Post-colonialism, Race
The Diaspora Suite
Filmed on location in Salvador, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora), Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score.