Girl Talk (2015)

Conceived as a performance for the camera Girl Talk captures poet and theorist Fred Moten in a verdant garden donning an ornate velvet cape and crystal jewelry what is generally coded as decidedly feminine attire His body spins slowly filling the frame with mesmerizing continuous motion Ambient light at times diffuses his image to a rotating blur He lipsyncs to a jazz rendition of the title song Girl Talk sung originally by Tony Bennett a darling of 60s middle class white culture