Reckless Eyeballing
- 2004
- 13m
In Reckless Eyeballing, the title taken from a Jim Crow-era prohibition against Black men looking at White women, Harris imagines encounters between characters from American films such as Bi... Read allIn Reckless Eyeballing, the title taken from a Jim Crow-era prohibition against Black men looking at White women, Harris imagines encounters between characters from American films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and the blaxploitation film Foxy Brown (1974) to explore "the gaze"... Read allIn Reckless Eyeballing, the title taken from a Jim Crow-era prohibition against Black men looking at White women, Harris imagines encounters between characters from American films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and the blaxploitation film Foxy Brown (1974) to explore "the gaze" from a Black cinematic context. Throughout the film he juxtaposes images of activist and ... Read all