The Freedom of Fiction

"Blackness is a lie, but it’s a true lie." - RaMell Ross.
The boundaries between fiction and nonfiction have never been stable, neutral, or benign. What the work of photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross, author and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, and filmmaker Charles Burnett have in common is the belief that nonfiction media teaches how to see race, how to inhabit it, and how to police it. Can it also open up new ways to see differently? Featuring RaMell Ross, Saidiya Hartman, Charles Burnett, Terri Francis, and Ina Archer