Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
Cinematic Sports Documentary: History, Politics, Aesthetics
Delve into the profound role of basketball in American life with this one-of-a-kind film unlike anything else in the modern-day sport documentary landscape. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Brett Kashmere’s 2014 film From Deep is an essay-style documentary that interrogates the game of basketball and its place in American culture. Offering both critical sports history and experimental filmmaking, Kashmere blends archival footage, mixtape aesthetics, and social commentary to trace basketball’s evolution in U.S. culture, specifically in African American communities. This inventive blend of experimental form and social consciousness of sport marks a significant intervention in the contemporary sport documentary landscape. [88 min; documentary, experimental; English]
A Q&A with filmmaker Brett Kashmere will follow the screening.
“From Deep's rejection of conventional doc form comes as a welcome reprieve from the norm in this mode of filmmaking.” — Kiva Reardon, Cinema Scope
“A funhouse-mirror image of America's fear of miscegenation.” — Dave Morris, Globe and Mail
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