Derived from theater, these six films emerge from an already forgotten era when theater and filmmaking stopped—that is, during the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic. It’s clear that the virus, the invisible mascot of our war against Earth, appeared alongside a reluctant, semi-awakening in the national consciousness to the crushing racial violence that we continue to mete out against people who are not “white,” an awakening accompanied by reflexive denial from those who may have the most to lose by the naming of that violence.

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