Hard Light Cinema

📍 Afterglow Coffee Cooperative | ⏰ doors 7:30p / starts 8p

dir. RaMell Ross

What does the South look like from the perspective of an African American male? The South as our conceptual home. How do we acknowledge history, move forward, deconstruct black visuality, start from scratch, imbed history? Time is all wrapped up in the historical present.

— RaMell Ross

Before he would dazzle film audiences with his innovative first-person perspective in Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’s debut feature Hale County This Morning, This Evening takes us into the lives of a community that only those who live there could experience. A swirling and intimate portrait of the people of Hale County, Alabama, the film takes us into their lives, hopes and dreams. Shedding the light on the humanity within us all, Ross’s camera demonstrates that the reality of black life needs no economic or social context to be understood but how black life simply needs to be shown. The film is an examination of not only how the people in the film see themselves, but how they are observed and perceived.

Thanks as always to our hosts at Afterglow, who will have wine and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase.