Archive of films Black Mother / Black Mother

USA / Jamaica
2018, 77 min

Section: Imagina
Year: 2018

This seminal cinematic portrait of Jamaica and its inhabitants compellingly merges the country’s spiritual, material, historical, and cultural contexts into a visual poem with a unique rhythm and an engaging narrative. Khalik Allah has created a colorful collage of the island nation, with images that exist almost between dream and reality.


Synopsis

In his latest film American street photographer Khalik Allah trains the camera lens on the faces of the inhabitants of Jamaica as well as on the environment in which they live. This seminal cinematic portrait of a nation finds its strength and significance in the director’s knack for merging spiritual, material, historical, and cultural contexts into a visual poem with a unique rhythm and an engagingly discursive narrative. Director Allah has created a colorful collage of the island nation, of its past and present, its ideas, myths, and religions, where images of street prostitutes, preachers, and also colonial history essentially exist between dream and reality.

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About the director

Khalik Allah

Khalik Allah (b. 1985). Filmography: Popa Wu, a 5% Story (2010), Field Niggas (2015), Black Mother (2018)

Contacts

Black Mother LLC
1 Victoria Circle, East Patchogue, 11772, New York
United States of America
E-mail: [email protected]

About the film

Color, Black & White, DCP

Section: Imagina
   
Director: Khalik Allah
Dir. of Photography: Khalik Allah
Music: 4th Disciple, Josh Furey
Editor: Khalik Allah
Producer: Khalik Allah, Leah Giblin
Production: Black Mother LLC
Coproduction: Cinereach
Contact: Black Mother LLC
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