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Without its pervasive black influence, Southern culture would be sadly diminished, and without its Southern component, American culture as we know it wouldn’t exist.

Agecroft Hall & Gardens, 4305 Sulgrave Road, Richmond, 23221 Photo:  Holy News Guardian The Richmond Shakespeare Festival is back at Agecroft Hall! Bring your lawn chair or blanket and join Quill Theatre on Agecroft’s back lawn where you can sit as close to (or as far from) other patrons as you like! Youll have a great view of the James River, the summer sky, the stage and, of course. Twelfth Night is Shakespeares hilarious tale of unrequited love crackles with quick wit and gender-bending h...

Confined to demarcated spaces, delivery bike rider Paul Mwase has few moments of release. Deliver Me captures this liminality with beauty and empathy

There are no big crowds or large gestures in But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World at the International Center of Photography in New York, which brings together the work of nine photographers to illuminate, as if by aleatory spotlight, corners of the United States in everyday endurance. Instead, the mood is quietly contemplative, a muted melancholy settling over the show like a light fog. But Still, It Turns—what Galileo reportedly said upon the church’s rejection of his m...

is a sort of celebration of documentary photography in its purest form; one that is made of observations of the world as-it-is . What is the purpose of the project? I would put it a little differently. This is not classic “documentary photography”, it’s simply photography that is made directly from the world. So: nothing from the studio, no big productions with actors and Hollywood lighting, nothing that is born in the computer – no Photoshop generated ‘magic’. Dont misunderstand me...

The World Revisited Is documentary photography dead? Recent years have seen a proliferation of work that intentionally subverts the genre – images that blur fact and fiction or are staged. But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, a group exhibition curated by Paul Graham (b. 1965) at the International Center of Photography in New York, shows another form of reportage is still possible, one that does not set out to tell a story or push a particular message, but – in so ...

*Exclusive Canadian Premiere* This true-crime documentary-style series follows Mike Mildon and his true-crime-obsessed best friend Jackson Rowe as they attempt to solve this coldest of cold cases. In 1934, Mikes great-great-uncle, Harold Heaven, mysteriously disappeared from his cabin in Minden, ON. Local police searched the nearby woods and lake, but Harold was never found nor heard from again. Eighty-six years later, Mike and Jackson head back to Minden to attempt to uncover the truth with t...

Kamoinge Workshop artist James M. Mannas Jr. screens his film “King is Dead” (1968), an account of the reactions of his New York community to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The screening is followed by a conversation with the filmmaker RaMell Ross, moderated by Whitney assistant curator Carrie Springer. RaMell Ross is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Rhode Island and Alabama. His feature documentary Hale County This  Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury ...

Releases include The Communists Daughter, The Slowest Show, and a new season of Broad Appeal by Staff on February 27th, 2021 at 9:00 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3 Here’s everything new coming to CBC Gem in March 2021, including these highlights by our critics. Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated experimental documentary about a group of friends living in Alabama’s Black Belt dispenses with traditional narrative in a search for the sublime. Shot over five years,...

★★★☆☆Khalik Allah’s mammoth, hypnotic documentary was shot mostly in Harlem on the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. Like Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross’s film of 2018