In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Directed by Seth and Peter Scriver, ENDLESS COOKIE is a wild animated documentary that lets the two men tell their own stories in their own way. Seth, now 47, says that Pete, 62, is “one of the best storytellers I know.” So he decided to audio-record Pete’s stories and then animate them. But, when Seth and Pete realized it was impossible to not have the audio recordings interrupted, they decided to embrace the chaos. In this 1on1, the Scrivers speak to us about their unique style of animation and using improvised audio.
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