Indiewire has posted the trailer & poster to Khalik Allah’s Black Mother, which will have exclusive NY theatrical run beginning Friday March 8 at the Metrograph in NYC.
A visionary filmmaker and photographer whose book Souls Against the Concrete came out in 2017, Allah exploded onto the world of documentary cinema in 2015 with Field Niggas (2015), a grassroots production capturing candid Harlem street life which went from a YouTube upload to taking the festival circuit by storm. He followed this with a contribution to Beyonce’s video album Lemonade.
For his next feature Black Mother, Allah took his peerless pictorial talent to Jamaica, the land of his mother’s birth. The film was shot on 16mm, Super 8, Hi-8 Tape, Mini DV, and HD Video and is, in Allah’s own words, “an exercise in style and aesthetic to showcase my range as a photographer.”
Per its official synopsis, the film is: “Part film, part baptism, in ‘Black Mother’ director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, ‘Black Mother’ channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.”
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