HDMovies

A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia in 1918. Publicly demanding justice following the murder of her husband, Turner was kidnapped by a mob, hung up in a tree, set on fire, her child cut out and killed, and shot hundreds of times before being buried on site in South Georgia. Returning to the origins of cinema, to challenge conventional notions of film–filmed on the exact date and estimated time of Turner’s lynching 105-years earlier–, # 3 uses static form, time, light and shadows, and landscape as antagonist and movement as metaphor to not only invoke the memory of Mary Turner, but to also examine perspective as it relates to our racial violence, violence against women, our failure to acknowledge our past, and the racial divide that continues to exist today yet in the schizophrenia of America life.