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- 2020
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- 2020
- ARRAY Releasing
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Summary A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.
Directed By: Merawi Gerima
Written By: Merawi Gerima
- 2020
- ARRAY Releasing
- 1 h 30 m
- 2020
- ARRAY Releasing
- 1 h 30 m
Residue
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Summary A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.
Directed By: Merawi Gerima
Written By: Merawi Gerima
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Universal Acclaim
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100% Positive
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Residue is a fleeting and haunting lament for what is lost to gentrification, and other tolls on black life in America. But at the same, it’s exhilarating and monumental, laced with the sensation that we’re discovering a bold and sensitive new voice.
Residue is a delicately balanced film that lands its points while exploring these conversations from angles that are often unseen.
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Residue is about colonization, and through the creative choices he makes, Gerima suggests that colonization stories don’t actually have to be about the colonizers themselves. Instead, he maintains a personal touch over the picture and the narrative, about a homecoming that goes slowly awry over the course of a 90 minute duration.
Elliptical and teasingly (but beautifully) photographed, it can give the impression of an experimental work but ultimately has a direct story to tell, one whose specificity doesn't in the least diminish its broader relevance.
Gerima films Jay’s intimate confrontations with an impressionistic flair that focusses attention on characters’ listening, thinking, and remembering; flashbacks and dream sequences infuse Jay’s tightening conflicts with the pressure of history—both social and intimate.
But the true strength of Residue is in its images. Gerima finds a poetic grace in his framing while forcing you to focus on unexpected things.
The bleak outlook of this story won’t be to every taste. But Residue brings a painful beauty to a real-life “whitewashing” of a city that will never let you look at gentrification from a realtor’s point of view ever again.
Production Company
Residue DC
Release Date Sep 17, 2020
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Awards
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 4 Nominations
Slamdance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations