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"The Challenge Is To Not Make It Pornography": Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Talks Black Trauma On-Screen And Filming "Nickel Boys"
"Violence is a reality."
I recently sat down with Aunjanue to discuss the making of the movie, explore Black trauma on-screen, her favorite moments, and more! But the challenge for us is to not make it pornography, to not fetishize it, and to handle it in a way that we offer the presentation of it, rather than it being authored for us, which happens when we watch the news, right? What I'm learning now is this notion that we have to interrogate every part of how we build images, and we assume that this thing called the camera is a sort of benign machine that we use at will, but in fact, it has been complicit.
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