Drylongso
15
Why watch?
“Despite bleak topics like abusive relationships and serial killings, there is also real beauty and brightness in Drylongso. It’s clear how much heart and effort went into making the film which makes it glow. You also feel so much warmth from the relationships and friendships at the centre of the film.”
Martha Boyd,
Digital Marketing Coordinator
This week's Hyde Park Pick
Pica, a photography student in Oakland, sees Black men as ‘an endangered species’ and so captures their photos to preserve their existence. Despite this, and other bleak topics like abusive relationships and serial killings, there is also real brightness in the film with warm friendships and relationships at its heart and colourful '90s aesthetics.
Smith crafts both a rare cinematic celebration of Black female creativity and a moving elegy for a generation of lost African American men.
This film is playing as part of SNAPSHOT: Black girls coming of age on their own terms. T A P E with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery presents a programme of radical archive and critical contemporary offerings with a series of features and short films which capture and celebrate the multi-faceted experiences of Black Girlhood.
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