Challenging traditional documentary practices with experimental approaches to editing and sound GIVE explores Roland Gordons motivations to create a monumental visual archive displaying centuries of black agency and achievements in the United States and beyond Rolands collage Cloud of Witnesses is comprised of thousands of photographic portraits newspapers and magazines cutouts presenting an alternative visual history to empower the black community The film explores collective representations of history memory and culture where pasts presents and futures are modeled by the blending of imagination facts and love
