- Source: Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Willams
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams is a 2015 documentary film by film essayist Thom Andersen featuring selected excerpts from the films of African American director Spencer Williams Jr.
Summary
The film is a plotless thirty-minute montage reconsidering Spencer's religious melodramas such as The Blood of Jesus (1941) that cuts scenes and aspects of his films while assembling major and minor moments into a portrait reflecting 1940s Black America.
Production
Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art as part of their program “A Road Three Hundred Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration”, Thom regraded his movie as
"a kin to Walker Evans' photographs of sharecroppers' homes in the 1930s and George Orwell's essays on English working class interiors".
See also
Race film
Juke joint
Christian film industry
References
External links
IMDb
MUBI
Grasshopper Educational
