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Contributors • FALL 2023 * NO. 122
A Deep Wanting to Know
Oxford American
Language of Hunger
Her Retirement, My Retirement
A Louisiana Story
Background Noise
Unspooling Norma Rae
Ja’Tovia Gary’s Cosmic Return
LOVE LETTER FROM KOKOMO • FILMMAKER D. SMITH’S DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE LIVES OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN
MADE FOR TV • ON POLLY AND DEBBIE ALLEN’S DIRECTORIAL SAVVY
THE INTIMATE AND THE PUBLIC • On Les Blank and Collaborative Documentary
IS THIS SACRED GROUND? • A Q&A WITH KASI LEMMONS
Toward a Radical Cinematic Horizon • The unrealized works of Toni Cade Bambara and Gloria Naylor
Imagining Through Fabric • The textiles and memories of Cameroon’s Muna Moto
The Black Girl Best Friends at the Survivors Party
In Old Wilmington • How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance
Documenting BodyPoetry and Two Iconic Movie Soundtracks