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‘Seeds’ Review: Nine Years in the Making, a Film as Patient and Persevering as the Black Farmers It Documents
In a lyrical, Sundance prize-winning debut, Brittany Shyne sows ideas about legacy and land.
Considering recent, breakneck attempts to gut civil rights, director Brittany Shyne ’s debut feature — which won the U.S. documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival — feels elegiac. Starting with a funeral procession establishes the life cycles of family and community — not unlike the lesson Clara Williams imparts sitting in a car to her grandniece about where the body in the hearse ahead of them might be going. Midway through the film, a scene of cotton being harvested and shaped into a trailer-length bale is underscored by a deep grumbling that suggests machinery, and vocals that hint at spirit (original music by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe).
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