Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich’s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of Black women. Rooted in archival and field research, Hunt - Ehrlich’s practice uses abstraction as a mode of resistance in depicting subjects deprived of self-autonomy under the exploitative gaze of the colonial camera. In these four films, she relays a fragmentary history of the United Order of Tents, a semi-clandestine organization of Black women founded in the 1860s; looks at her grandmother’s life and musical compositions; interrupts the white gaze of the Western canon; and meditates on a series of anonymous photographs of Black life, speculating on the inner lives of photographers and subjects.
Related program:
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation
March 25, 7:00 p.m. CST
This event will have live captions.
Footnote to the West is a dreamy fragment about the end of the world. A Black girl wanders into a Hollywood Western and mourns for the dead.
- Year2020
- Runtime5 minutes
- FilmmakerMadeleine Hunt - Ehrlich
Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich’s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of Black women. Rooted in archival and field research, Hunt - Ehrlich’s practice uses abstraction as a mode of resistance in depicting subjects deprived of self-autonomy under the exploitative gaze of the colonial camera. In these four films, she relays a fragmentary history of the United Order of Tents, a semi-clandestine organization of Black women founded in the 1860s; looks at her grandmother’s life and musical compositions; interrupts the white gaze of the Western canon; and meditates on a series of anonymous photographs of Black life, speculating on the inner lives of photographers and subjects.
Related program:
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation
March 25, 7:00 p.m. CST
This event will have live captions.
Footnote to the West is a dreamy fragment about the end of the world. A Black girl wanders into a Hollywood Western and mourns for the dead.
- Year2020
- Runtime5 minutes
- FilmmakerMadeleine Hunt - Ehrlich
