This article is part of our Milwaukee Film Festival daily preview series. The series is brought to you by Associated Bank. Hale County This Morning, This Evening Tuesday, Oct. 23 @ 9:30 p.m Jan Serr Studio Cinema
In The Souls of Black Folks (1903), W.E.B. DuBois described the “double consciousness” of African Americans continually forced to see themselves through the eyes of a society that views them as occupying a lower rung on the human ladder. The concept was on the mind of filmmaker Ramell Ross in directing his full-length debut, Hale County This Morning, This Evening. Ross’ documentary follows several African Americans from rural Hale County, Ala., over the course of five years and gives voice to their experiences in school, church and on the streets. The New York Times praised Ross’ “poetic logic” as “inextricable from his consciousness of race and community, and of his function and potential as an artist grappling with his own circumstances and those of the people he’s depicting.”
Also screened at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31, Oriental Theatre Main.
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