2017 | United States | Experimental

Go-Rilla Means War

  • English 19 mins
  • Director | Crystal Z Campbell
  • Writer | Crystal Z Campbell
  • Producer | Crystal Z Campbell

STATUS: Released

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Go-Rilla Means War is a filmic relic of gentrification featuring 35mm film salvaged from a now demolished Black Civil Rights Theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. After finding the film unfinished and un-canned on the floor of The Slave Theater, Campbell collaborated with the unknown director (presumably amateur filmmaker Judge John Phillips who owned the Slave Theater) to finish the film. A secret Black fraternal organization dominates the visual narrative, accompanied by a parable that binds intersections of development, cultural preservation, and erasure.

Gentrification Preservation Erasure Fraternity Heritage
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