Blind
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Cory Nixon
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
A Black man weaves through a Halloween week of strained friendships with white people, ducking microaggressions and fragility while everyone insists they're the good ones.
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Halloween week is the perfect setting for white people insisting they get it — Nixon doesn't even need to write the joke, just hold the camera steady.
Cory Nixon writes a Halloween-week satire of 2020-era white guilt that doesn't pretend the conversations were ever in good faith — Atlanta's tonal range in a single character's POV. Bracing.
A satire of 2020-era white guilt that doesn't pretend the conversations were ever in good faith — Cory Nixon directing and starring in a Halloween-week chamber piece is the kind of personal-stakes satire I trust more than the broader kind.
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A spirited response to an uncomfortable discourse delivered with vibrant visuals and confident performances.