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You think, we carry our ancestors with us?
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: a mother and daughter keep vigil at a cemetery behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia to stave off grave robbers from the local medical school. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleep-away camp. Timelines collide and illuminate the repercussions of this country’s defiling of Black bodies.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic appraisal of our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in our collective resistance, revealing roots to our ancestors that are not as long as we may think.
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: a mother and daughter keep vigil at a cemetery behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia to stave off grave robbers from the local medical school. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleep-away camp. Timelines collide and illuminate the repercussions of this country’s defiling of Black bodies.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic appraisal of our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in our collective resistance, revealing roots to our ancestors that are not as long as we may think.
Director
Evren Odcikin
Written by
Nia Akilah Robinson
