What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when speech is ignored, and the voice fades.
I’m in the middle of a big Akerman binge. I just saw South, which blew me away. It was so much about how America is perceived when you cross the country, how the landscape is affected by its history. I was doing a lot of driving around Montana for the film, and Akerman’s images really resonated.