Slamdance Film Review: The Sleeping Negro – SLUG Magazine
Premiere: 02.12 Hot on the heels of the most transgressive year in recent memory, director, writer and star of The Sleeping Negro, Skinner Myers, presents a film that is a complete encapsulation of 2020’s racial tensions: the bleeding history, its polarity and the overwhelming ignorance of it all. Meyers’ character, simply credited as “Man,” confronts the full spectrum of blatant- and micro-aggressive behaviors from the white hegemony while going about his day, pushing him to his absolute limits through the tedium and strain of this everyday battle. The film simmers with an exhaust...
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