Jay returns to his childhood neighbourhood in Washington, D.C., to work on a screenplay. What remains when you leave, what is left when you come back? How to grasp memories and fragments of the past? Layers bleeding into each other – dreams of a childhood home, repressed and present traumata. Movements of searching, political urgencies and violence – inscribed into a street. Gentrification. An everchanging city. Intangible and somehow off-centre. An attempt to take hold of what cannot be brought back. Driven by the desire for place and connectedness. Making films about films, rummaging through a density of layered realities to find specific images for a bigger picture. Bits and pieces, between dazzling moments and pain. In his impressive debut feature, Merawi Gerima skilfully conveys his protagonist’s conflicting experiences: As he returns to places of his past, the political realities of the present catch up with him. (dca)
Credits
Production: Merawi Gerima
Screenplay: Merawi Gerima
Image: Mark Jeevaratnam
Sound: Merawi Gerima
Editing: Merawi Gerima
Music: Black Alley, Total Control band,
Critical Condition Band, Isaiah Hall
Intro
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(A Brief Explanation of Time by an African American Woman Who is Exhausted by White People Not Using Google So I Thought I’d Help Everyone Out)
From the Series “Black Google”
Adia Trischler
