Addicted to Blackface
2020 · 4m
Directed by John Connor Hammond
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A group therapy session tackles the country's most combustible and taboo subject matter with zero filter and maximum discomfort.
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Four minutes of group therapy for blackface addiction. I didn't know I needed this and now I can't unknow it.
Group therapy for white racial performance is a premise that could be searing or unforgivably misjudged depending on the room — at four minutes there's no time to recover from a wrong read, and the synopsis is too thin to gauge which it is.
Four-minute deadpan group-therapy framing of racial performance as addiction. Page is extremely thin and the conceit is volatile — there's no way to know if this is sharp critique or just provocation without watching.