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A dazzling, devastating feature debut. TWITTER Shatara Michelle Ford s film follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape. In Shatara Michelle Ford’s experimental thriller Test Pattern, light and dark are intertwined. The film is a staggeringly impressive debut, blending color, sound and story to create an intricate emotional tapestry. It begins in the moment before a sexual assault occurs. We meet our main character as she is barely conscious, the glass of water in her hands tipping toward the floor. The screen glows red, letting us know that we are in for something ominous and violent. We see the perpetrator in the mirror as he gazes at his reflection before approaching his victim. This is the setup of a horror film: a defenseless woman, a man with dead eyes, a secluded location and no dialogue. ....
Test Pattern Review: A Shrewd, Socially Penetrating Relationship Drama Test Pattern Review: A Shrewd, Socially Penetrating Relationship Drama A loving interracial relationship begins to fracture in the wake of a rape, in Shatara Michelle Ford s quietly momentous first feature. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 82 MIN. Eighty-two minutes is not a long time. And yet Shatara Michelle Ford’s intelligent and engrossing feature debut packs an enormous amount in, while still finding room to let characters, moments and difficult, provocative issues breathe. An ostensibly small-scale drama that traces a couple of days in the aftermath of a sexual assault, it’s a remarkable display of compression and control, using one interracial relationship as a microcosm in which to observe the invisible influence of enormous, malign societal forces. “Test Pattern” tiny, sedate yet urgent is like the tinkling of . ....