Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams (2015)

Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams (2015)

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to make a work about pioneering African-American director, producer and occasional actor Spencer Williams (1893-1963), Andersen turned to Williams' films as director, assembling major and minor moments into a portrait of the everyday in Black America of the 1940s. "I am not trying to make some new meaning from these films; I am striving to bring out the meanings that are there but obscured by the plot lines: the dignity of black life and the creation of dynamic culture in the segregated society in small-town north Texas. I regard my movie as akin to Walker Evans' photographs of sharecroppers' home in 1930s and George Orwell's essays on English working class interiors.

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