Black Star (2022)

One learns to look a certain way in order to resist

How can one find “spaces of agency” (bell hooks) in a racist film? How can unseen, unacknowledged labor be rendered visible videographically? And why is a VHS tape of "Gone with the Wind" preferable to all remasterings?

Cast (1)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Vivien Leigh

Self (archive footage)

If you liked Black Star, you might also like…

92% match

Life in a Day

2011

88% match

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010

85% match

McQueen

2018

83% match

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

1990

77% match

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002

72% match

Fuck

2006

70% match

All That Breathes

2022

69% match

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

61% match

Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis

2019

60% match

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

2012

60% match

Directed by John Ford

1971

60% match

The Class of ‘92

2013

60% match

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017

60% match

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

2006

60% match

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

60% match

Deliver Us from Evil

2006

60% match

S4: The Bob Lazar Story

2026

60% match

In the Realms of the Unreal

2004

60% match

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012

60% match

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013