it's really are deeply entrenched over here going on but it was pressure it can get nasty because people are so far apart at the moment why put it on and crown commitment and what you're not the issue is so emotionally charged but when you're on duty together it can't interfere. while other. monica fisher and materials pressures larger than life pictures are on show at the stop for house museum in lynchburg new reserves. the exhibitions name could also be this year's u.s. election slogan divided we stand. a diverse states seem less united at least seen from the outside the words that you like from the inside. in germany

people are also looking at the us right now. a photo exhibit in hamburg shows pictures of america that expose the myth of the american dream. magnum photographer matt black called this personal inventory of poverty migration and powerlessness american geography. using bold black and white images he depicts the underdogs in the land of endless nights abilities. the photographs look as if they were taken in another time. friends of his a production or when i look at these pictures have to remind myself that we are in the 21st century and. it's a powerful show and a world premiere which the photographer couldn't attend because of coronavirus. black grew up in california the public image let's say of disneyland of silicon valley of hollywood. all of that exists. but there is another california where it's

hot weather is doesn't where farming just a thought for plants for itself and that's the one he comes from. magic black began to document that california in 2014 the sadness the desolation the struggle for survival. for 5 years the photographer traveled through the u.s. by bus you visited hundreds of places whose residents live far below the poverty line he gathered data discovered things. he met people who don't have health insurance unemployment benefits or any means of support. the photographer recorded his observations in a diary. i drive north to flint past buick city which was once the largest automobile plant in the world in 1900

general motors employed 80000 people in flint today there are fewer than 8000 people living here. matt blacks photographs tell stories about loss about lost jobs security and confidence. in one interview he said. when it comes to power in the u.s. it's always a question of race as well. my work also deals with the same issues who has access to power and who is excluded. zippos picked even if this perspective of change or perhaps simply of the future is a method in the pictures to spot. it and this creates a glimpse of something completely contradicts the american dream i mean. that black isn't trying to take shocking pictures he keeps

a distance and doesn't turn to the dignity of those who are struggling what's shocking is that these images show the present day looking at them the campaign slogan from 4 years ago to make america great again crumbles as a hollow promise the current reality looks very different. poverty discrimination and police violence or problems that have many citizens riled up and also some filmmakers. from. black lives matter protests existed before trump but the trump presidency has energized the movement before the election films by in about black people films that look at themes of racism and police violence have taken center stage. after the killing of george floyd director spike lee the film editing real life footage with

a similar chokehold death of americana in 2014 and scenes from his own 1909 film do the right thing the right thing was based upon the real live show murder. michael and then. you know not just by. strangulation. shadegg. in the heat you give maids 2 years into the trunk presidency and then some black man is shot dead playing go back to. the result of violence and a fight for justice about black people poor people everybody at the bottom ringback ringback. in the documentary time a woman struggles to get her husband released from a 60 year prison sentence for robbery. my name. is awaiting on a ruling regarding my husband's. wishes one even might have any information like

a date on it. thank you so much. that films like this go beyond protest rhetoric to show the fate of real people the movies have helped shine a new light on the black lives matter movement. but tweens of the 18 needs met. they have absolutely no idea what it means to have a father son father. and i think that it has given people a different lens with which to evaluate that movement and i think that there were some people who make quietly been more dismissive of that movement as radical or violent one probable porter's response to black lives matter was to look back at the obama presidency to the lens of official white house photographer pete sosa

just like yours president obama bent over them with their kid touches her dubious hand that image stands for how kids will see themselves differently for ever seen those photos again but they tell a story. not only about president obama but really about the office. and how important an institution was. and i realized it way. i think like a lot of people i kind of took for granted the stability. that the prior administration. i saw who is this man how does he deal with crisis leadership character and empathy. such a wish we have that now god. the current us president seems less interested in finding common cause than in demonizing black lives matter. the stated goal of b.l.m. organization people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family abolish the

police abolish prisons abolish border security abolish capitalism and abolish school choice that's what their stated goals are for m.l.k. f.b.i. looks back to government attempts to suppress the civil rights struggle of the 1960 s. the director sees a parallel to trump today when shoppers out there are making frequent to claiming that the suburbs will be destroyed and such evidence is those people of color are going to come in and destroy your community. law and order 'd and mean simply in america like equal out of the equation that dr king gave his famous march on washington pollard hopes his film can help americans to remember their own history . in a memo dated 30 of august no later than that. the 2nd person in the f.b.i. have been solved. since the purge memo which he said. after the

march on washington. it's clear. that martin luther king jr is the most dangerous negro. in america part of my agenda is that what you still make is to deal with these and choose them look at where. since social change i mean that's going to mean way back when i wasn't. in this continued with the rise and fall jim crow. you know. in the instance in is a part of my gender. so williams has also spent a career looking at what it means to be black in america in a kill is a skate which premiered at the toronto film festival williams plays a drug dealer looking to break out of a life of crime. a slam poet a rapper and a filmmaker williams was and is always an activist 1st. just

received word in work like multimedia piece martyr loser king he mashes up the past current events and virtual reality to break with an american history that leaves out black voices by more than you can look at you know the history of lynching in this country through the history of police violence or the history of policing and loitering laws and all of these things and all this is not civilized. this is barbaric. artists and filmmakers continue to draw strength and inspiration from black lives matter and not just the head of the election they are already looking to the time beyond the trump presidency. that. there will be you know question of how we got here but then also what we did after and i think like like i want to be part of the what we did after i. for the time after

trying it is the younger generation who hope that their voices will be heard. and that was our road trip through america's cultural scene after. election the next path will become clearer thanks for watching and stay well.

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