Gift for livrelibre by absternr (RPF - Black Lives Matter movement)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: Say Her Name
Recipient: livrelibre
Vidder: absternr
Fandom: RPF - Black Lives Matter movement
Music: Hell You Talmbout (Say Their Names) by Janelle Monae & Wondaland
Summary: (Disclaimer: I am white and therefore not an authority on BLM. I am open to criticism!)
Content notes: References to murder and police brutality
Signed length: 05:15
Signed URL: http://absternr.livejournal.com/1866.html

Comments

[no_detective]

Heartbreaking, infuriating, powerful. Thank you.

[no_detective]

I can't stop thinking about this vid, so I'm back to ramble a bit. At first I thought it's because of the clips I hadn't seen before, and how effectively you're using the source material, but it's really the structure of the narrative itself that stays with me - how a movement starts with individuals, and then builds in the community, and how individual voices are always there but they get channelled into messages, and how the grief and the anger get expressed through the physical engagement of the march, and how it's a communal experience and also really fucking personal. And how much that narrative differs from a lot of the mainstream media "coverage" - which to me is such a shit word bc "covering" something in the news, unlike in music/art, erases the construction of narrative by the production process. So this vid does its own constructing, and feels like a short documentary work, which is art, but also feels like a closer and more accurate take on the individual experience of protesting, which I feel should be the perspective taken by the media in order to strive for, idk, realism and objectivity (as opposed to bias and objectification, e.g. persistently filming the protesters from a distance or from above).

Anyway. It feels really weird to see the label RPF on this post, because... well, the F is confusing to say the least. I'm guessing it's an issue with limited labeling and hopefully something that can be changed.