Devotion
A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and fiction.

Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, and cultural histories in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her protagonists. This book explores Bradley’s work through the lens of devotion and features conversations with the artist and contributions from the likes of Ashley Clark, Arthur Jafa, Joy James, Tyler Mitchell, Kevin Quashie, and Claudia Rankine. This is the first volume in a new series of readers copublished with Lisson Gallery entitled Re:, which will respond to a number of its artists and themes past and present.

Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s films exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, not only disrupting our perception of time, but also breaking down our preconceived ideas about objectivity, perspective, and truth-telling. These narratives unfold naturally in both feature-length and short form, revealing a multitude of individual and collective stories. The social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen.
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Devotion
A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and fiction.

Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, and cultural histories in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her protagonists. This book explores Bradley’s work through the lens of devotion and features conversations with the artist and contributions from the likes of Ashley Clark, Arthur Jafa, Joy James, Tyler Mitchell, Kevin Quashie, and Claudia Rankine. This is the first volume in a new series of readers copublished with Lisson Gallery entitled Re:, which will respond to a number of its artists and themes past and present.

Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s films exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, not only disrupting our perception of time, but also breaking down our preconceived ideas about objectivity, perspective, and truth-telling. These narratives unfold naturally in both feature-length and short form, revealing a multitude of individual and collective stories. The social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen.
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Devotion

Devotion

by Garrett Bradley
Devotion

Devotion

by Garrett Bradley

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A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and fiction.

Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, and cultural histories in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her protagonists. This book explores Bradley’s work through the lens of devotion and features conversations with the artist and contributions from the likes of Ashley Clark, Arthur Jafa, Joy James, Tyler Mitchell, Kevin Quashie, and Claudia Rankine. This is the first volume in a new series of readers copublished with Lisson Gallery entitled Re:, which will respond to a number of its artists and themes past and present.

Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s films exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, not only disrupting our perception of time, but also breaking down our preconceived ideas about objectivity, perspective, and truth-telling. These narratives unfold naturally in both feature-length and short form, revealing a multitude of individual and collective stories. The social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262048798
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 02/27/2024
Series: Re:
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 6.63(w) x 9.19(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Garrett Bradley is an artist and filmmaker. Her Academy Award–nominated documentary Time (2020) was nominated for over 57 awards and won a Peabody Award as well as Best Director at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to win Best Director. Her debut feature was included in President Barack Obama’s “Favorite Films list,” as well as Time's “25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance” and their annual “Best 100 Films of the Century.”

Table of Contents

Contents

9 Introduction, Ossian Ward
13 Filmography: 2001-22, Garret Bradley
128 Back to Black: Lime Kiln Club Field Day, Ashley Clark
138 In a (Not So) Silent Way: Listening Past Black Visuality in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Charles P Linscott
162 The Art of Nonfiction No. 1, Joan Didion in conversation with Hilton Als
186 Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
196 Garrett Bradley in conversation with Huey Copeland
210 Godmother’s Rules, Valerie Boyd
228 Color Struck, A Play in Four Scenes, Zora Neale Hurston
240 Rest Notes: On Black Sleep Aesthetics, Josie Roland Hudson
260 Garrett Bradley in conversation with Tyler Mitchell
270 Trauma, Time Theft, and the Captive Maternal, Joy James
280 Time in the Mind, Doreen St. Felix
288 Garrett Bradley in conversation with Suzanne McClelland
300 Glitch Ghosts, Legacy Russell
306 Garrett Bradley in conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Arthur Jafa
318 Killer of Sheep, Jeffrey Skoller
332 The Capacities of Waiting, Kevin Quashie
352 Garrett Bradley in conversation with Alexandra Bell
366 Filmography credits
368 Image credits
370 Text credits
371 Contributor biographies
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