Daniel Morfesis News Today

In my years of doing interviews and roundtables and Q&A’s for the various films we’ve made, there is one question that recurs. No matter the length of the piece or the tone of the room, eventually, inevitably, I am asked about the white gaze. It wasn’t until a very particular interview regarding The Underground Railroad that the blindspot inherent in that questioning became clear to me: never, in all my years of working or questioning, had I been set upon about the Black gaze; or the gaze...

*Director Barry Jenkins has released another teaser called “In Aeternum” as part of his upcoming Amazon Original series “The Underground Railroad” chronicles, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel. The clip above brings you further into the world of the series by providing glimpses of various character’s journeys and a sampling of composer Nicholas Britell’s singular score. “As we kept editing more and more on the show, there’d be these moments that, as I was watching them...