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
...