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Field Niggas
Promotional release poster
Directed byKhalik Allah
CinematographyKhalik Allah
Edited byKhalik Allah
Release date
  • February 2015 (2015-02)[1]
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish

Field Niggas is a 2015 American

African American,[2] experiencing poverty, homelessness, drug addiction,[3][4] physical infirmities, and harassment from the police.[5]

Production

Field Niggas was filmed during the summer of 2014,

overdubbed sound of field hollers by a 1950s chain gang.[8]

The film's title is derived from "Message to the Grass Roots",[9] a public speech delivered by human rights activist Malcolm X in 1963, "extolling the spirit of rebellion among outdoor slaves."[7]

Release and reception

Allah released the film for free on YouTube and Vimeo in 2015 for a short time,[5] before removing it at the request of True/False Film Festival so it could be shown there.[10] It has since been shown on the film festival and college circuits in the United States and Europe.[7][10]

Glenn Kenny of The New York Times called the film "powerful", and wrote that it "is so beautifully constructed that nothing in it ever seems obvious."[3] Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, calling it "gorgeous and achingly sad".[4] Alan Scherstuhl of The Village Voice wrote: "More a woozy experience you press through than an ethnographic study you watch, Khalik Allah's hour-long non-narrative street-life doc Field Niggas stands as the most striking sort of urban portraiture."[2] Charlie Schmidlin of IndieWire wrote: "Intimate, singular, and hallucinatory on all aesthetic levels, the film strips politics down to the bone, not always successful but never opportunistic."[9]

Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "an hour-long Harlem nocturne of near-hallucinatory intensity", but wrote that "the project is ultimately hobbled by repetitiveness and directorial self-regard."[11]

References

  1. ^ "UnionDocsIFP Screen Forward Presents Field Niggas. Opens October 16th". UnionDocs. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b Scherstuhl, Alan (October 13, 2015). "Lexington One Two Five: Experimental Doc 'Field Niggas' Puts You There All Night". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Kenny, Glenn (October 15, 2015). "Review: 'Field Niggas' Is a Meditation on Life on the Streets of East Harlem". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Hoffman, Jordan (October 15, 2015). "Field Niggas review – hallucinatory portrait of New York street life". The Guardian. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Brody, Richard (January 18, 2018). "A Filmmaker and Photographer's Urgent, Personal Portraits of Harlem at Night". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  6. ^ Brody, Richard. "Field Niggas". Goings On About Town | Movies. The New Yorker. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Rapold, Nicolas (April 17, 2015). "Khalik Allah's Movie Captures Harlem Faces and Voices by Moonlight". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  8. ^ Luers, Erik (October 16, 2015). ""A Documentarian Needs to be Disarming": Khalik Allah on Field Niggas". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  9. ^ a b Schmidlin, Charlie (November 10, 2015). "AFI Fest Review: Khalik Allah's Documentary 'Field Niggas' Is A Hallucinatory Nighttime Document". IndieWire. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Khalik Allah". Filmmaker. 23 July 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  11. ^ Young, Neil (June 29, 2015). "'Field Niggas': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

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