The Black Hollywood history they buried — until this film dug it up.
Direction
Greaves shapes fragments into devastating argument with surgical precision.
Production
Rescued footage that studios literally let decay — preservation as politics.
Director
William Greaves
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates the 'race films' revival by decades — Greaves was literally preserving history nobody else would touch, including footage from the Lincoln Motion Picture Company that no longer exists in complete form.
Greaves made this between his experimental Symbiopsychotaxiplasm films — same obsessive formal curiosity, but here weaponized against historical amnesia. The man never stopped experimenting with how to MAKE you see.
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