Black Roots
Lionel Rogosin,
1970,
63’
In Black Roots, set in the intimacy of a small cafe, five individuals exchange biographical anecdotes and make music in a compelling and honest distillation of Black history and culture.
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“Something special! The faces Rogosin caught in this film will remain in my memory for a long time. There is a dream in these faces, a carelessness, a joy, an innocence, a blind trust in life, and some of the cruel truth of our times.”
Jonas Mekas1
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Jonas Mekas, cited in the Milestone Films press file for Black Roots.
