60 Second Side-Eye // The Color Purple (1985)

In this visual essay, I use looping, slowed, and briefly stilled images to extend the duration of Nettie and Celie’s carefree expressions of girlish joy.

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60 Second Side-Eye started as an experiment. Well, an experiment and a challenge: what new knowledge or ways of seeing blackness emerge when we concentrate on the intimate, everyday moments of black girl experiences? For educational purposes.

Sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound.