Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
2020 | 00:09:31 | Germany / United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles
Tags: Film or Videomaking, Memory, Race, Youth/Childhood
A childhood experience is projected on a shadowy wall of a former movie theatre. A racist cinematic trauma passed between friends and family is remembered among the rustling of leaves and reflections of trees on an iPad screen. An essay about how past and present interrupt one another like movies being perpetually edited.
Prizes + Awards
Voted Best Video Essay of 2020, Sight & Sound Magazine
Premiere
Open City, London Documentary FestivalLondon
Exhibitions + Festivals
2021 Rotterdam International Film Festival
