Movie Details
Original Language:English
71 on the Web:Official Website
71
DirectorPaige Taul
19 minDocumentary
Plot
71 is about the sensibilities of the black middle class as observed by Jessica Taul and Pamela Patterson the filmmakers mother and aunt respectively They discuss their differing tastes definitions of class frogs and other qualifiers they consider in their evaluation of the space that they live in a suburbanlike outcropping of identical housing units Through direct quotation and phenomenological relation to Bill Greaves seminal film Still A Brother Inside the Negro Middle Class 1968 71 navigates the temporal gaps in conformity and respectability politics between 1968 and 2022
