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Devilfindswork

Take two:

​”It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.  The language of the camera is the language of our dreams. 

                        -James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

 

Black Leader is a new blog that grows from my personal film blog: continuumfilmblog.

Black Leader, like cfb concerns-- to paraphrase Paul Valéry(?) --“the interconnectedness of all things”...media.

{black leader fills in the gaps in a film}

Black Leader moves blackness to center frame.

Black Leader will deploy the Rack Focus “A commonly used technique in both film and television to shift focus from a foreground object to a background object by turning the focal ring on a lens.” metaphorically shifting focal attention from what is immediately before us regarding film history to what is less known or obscured in ways that are layered, cross-platformed and multidisciplinary.

Black Leader prioritizes artistic production by and critical voices of people of color. {And welcomes allies}

Black Leader hopes to foment programming that will evolve into interdisciplinary projects inclusive of and not limited to a publication, curated events and screening series leading to the creation of an itinerant and, eventually, a brick & mortar micro-cinema.

Black Leader's base media preservation of the moving image artifact and progresses towards digitization.

Black Leader evokes Arthur Jafa’s “what if” of a cinematography or even a photochemistry that ancient Africans invented. “What if” he asks in his publish remarks; “we had put the apparatus that we understand as cinema (emphasis mine) in Africa five hundred years ago?”

Black Leader's manifesto is evolving...

 



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