Emilia in Shakespeare’s Othello embodies a paradox: she is both submissive and bold; she holds her tongue, but also lashes out at the world’s—specifically a patriarchal world—injustices.  Most important, when she speaks, she does not just speak: she opines. In this blog, I will give my opinion, tempered by analysis, about films that interest me. These will be mostly films by contemporary Black filmmakers at the beginning of their careers.  The films are also mostly Afrofuturist films, because I find this strand of contemporary Black film making the most vibrant—but more on Afrofuturism later. 

I also aim to bridge an academic and theory bound approach with a production perspective in the broadest sense: that is, an emphasis on visualization through an analysis of staging, casting, camera angles and movement, as well as editing. I hope that this approach will be of interest to many, but especially high-school and college teachers who may not be experts on film but would like to incorporate films into their classes in the context of film practice.