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Our IN-PERSON screening of Shatara⁣ Michelle Ford's debut feature TEST PATTERN is THIS FRIDAY, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. ONLY. ⁣ ⁣ TEST PATTERN follows a couple whose relationship is tested after the woman, ⁣ who is Black, is sexually assaulted, and her boyfriend, who is white, ⁣ drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.⁣ ⁣ Set against the backdrop of current discussions of inequitable health care and policing, the #MeToo⁣ movement, and race in America, the film exposes the systemic factors ⁣ and social conditioning women face when navigating the American ⁣ patriarchy while exploring institutional racism from a Black female ⁣ point of view.⁣ ⁣ "...a perceptive and often quite painful ⁣ examination of sexual assault, relationship dynamics, racial divides, ⁣ and the corrosive power of violence, the writer and director mines a ⁣ dizzying amount of topical issues...[the film] doesn’t push its biggest ⁣ ideas, instead laying them out for both Renesha and the audience to ⁣ ...

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