Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Mouvement Perpétuel
Cast & Crew
A
Amara Barner
A
Angélique Willkie
P
Pablo Córdoba Salcido
Editor
P
Pablo Córdoba Salcido
Director of Photography
Mercy
StarringAmara BarnerAngélique Willkie
DirectorPhilip Szporer
16 minDrama
Plot
Based on the poetry cycle of the esteemed African-American poet Cornelius Eady, the film is inspired by the work of Phillis Wheatley, the first published black poet in the US. “Mercy” aims to weave Wheatley's poetry and imagery, which focuses on the complication of the slave learning their captor's language, with gesture, movement and voice into an intricate meditation on black womanhood.
