Films tackle racism white supremecy
The documentaries Black Sheep and A Night at the Garden both tackle racism and white supremacy.
Black Sheep
is a first-person profile of a black youth relating how he survived his
family’s move from London to the countryside by changing to “fit in”
with his violently racist neighbors. The interviews with the main
subject are mesmerizing and harrowing, but its power is undercut by the
unnecessary incorporation of reenactment sequences. They feel as though
the filmmakers had no better idea as to how to make the story feel
cinematic enough.
A Night at the Garden is composed entirely of
archival footage, presenting a brief glimpse of an American Nazi rally
held in Madison Square Garden in 1939 (20,000 people were in
attendance). While a longer look at the night in question could have
been far more edifying, the brief running time is part of the point.
Made by Field of Vision, it’s intended as a pointed, punchy reminder of
how antisemitism and fascism are not recent developments in American
populist movements.
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