Wavelengths - Liz Garbus and the Assassination of Nina Simone
Our latest ed. of Luminal blog Wavelengths is dedicated to Nina Simone, and the lack of her proper representation in the 2016 documentary “What Happened, Miss Simone”, which our writer Dennis Leroy Kangalee reluctantly watched. As you’ll glean, he probably should have followed his instincts.
Says Kangalee, “Garbus commits the greatest sin a non-fiction filmmaker can commit: she exploits instead of bearing witness. She’s more interested in maligning Simone’s imagination and creating beauty and warping the Black female warrior - than she is in divulging "truth."
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