Los Angeles Film Festival 2012

Question Bridge: Black Males

(USA, 2012, 75 mins)

Producers: Bayeté Ross Smith, Kamal Sinclair, Deborah Willis, Delroy Lindo, Jesse Williams
Cinematographer: Chris Johnson
Editors: Will Sylvester, Rosa White

It’s easy to engage individuals in conversation, but how does one engage a broad community? This multimedia project from artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, along with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, provides a unique opportunity for dialogue between black men nationwide. For the past four years, Johnson and company have traveled to eleven cities, recording African-American men asking candid questions on camera, which were then answered by other men, who might live next door or thousands of miles away. Stretching across more than just geographic boundaries, but also generational and class divides, Question Bridge is redefining the black male experience in 21st century America.

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