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QUIET AS IT’S KEPT Short Film Competition

QUIET AS IT’S KEPT

Description

World Premiere

Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1

QUIET AS IT’S KEPT is a cinematic response to Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” An evocative illustration of the everyday particulars of colorism, the film collages direct animation, super 8 and 16mm film footage and repurposed social media clips to consider themes of internalized and externalized anti-blackness in contemporary culture.

Bios

Filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Ja’Tovia Gary works across documentary, avant-garde video art, sculpture and installation. Gary seeks to trouble notions of objectivity and neutrality in nonfiction storytelling by asserting a Black feminist subjectivity and employs a rigorous interrogation and apprehension of the archive in much of her multivalent work.

Contact

Brittni Collins
studio@jatovia.com

Details

Country: USA

Year: 2023

Director: Ja'Tovia M. Gary

Producer: Ja'Tovia M. Gary

Directors of Photography: Ja'Tovia M. Gary, Lendl Tellington, Mikon Haaksman

Editor: Ja'Tovia M. Gary

Music: Nelson Bandela, Immanuel Wilkins, Micah Thomas, Kweku Sumbry

Cast/Featuring: Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie, Bianca Melidor, Ja'Tovia Gary

Running Time (minutes): 26

Language: English

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