Tra i film da poco passati al Sundance Film Festival, uno in particolare ha suscitato il nostro interesse: si tratta di Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, di Thomas Allen Harris, presentato nella sezione New Frontiers.

Il documentario mostra, utilizzando anche gli album di famiglia, come gli Afro-americani abbiano usato la fotografia come strumento di riscatto sociale attraverso la rappresentazione di se stessi, e di se stessi come parte della nazione. Con la testimonianza e il racconto di fotografi e artisti contemporanei, il film costruisce un percorso di riconciliazione e riappropriazione con il proprio passato, riflettendo su come la propria idea di "blackness" sia cambiata negli ultimi decenni.

Qui il trailer ufficiale.

Gabriele Magazzù

ENGLISH VERSION

During the recent Sundance Film Festival, one film in particular caught our attention: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, a film by Thomas Allen Harris, presented in the New Frontiers category.

Using the family album as a rubric, the documentary examines how African-Americans have resorted to photography as a means for social liberation - through the representation of their own individuality and sense of self-worth as part of a nation. Based on the recollection by contemporary photographers and artists, the movie builds up a path of reconciliation and seizure with the individual’s own history, and it ponders upon how the idea of “blackness” has changed over the past decades.

Here the official trailer.

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