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RaMell Ross

(1982) Film Director

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RaMell Ross is a film director.

Quick Facts About RaMell Ross

Born: May 15, 1982
Profession: Film Director

About RaMell Ross

American film director... | RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker. His directorial debut, Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), earned him a Peabody Award, and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Ross directed

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I'm relatively hard to reach because I'm just not necessarily interested in fielding calls for my entire life.

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Faith is something, of course, that exists because you don't need evidence for it by faith itself.

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It's strange because big budget doesn't necessarily imply theatrical release anymore.

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The terror of the U.S. is not just in the whip. It's very much in the way the grass has been watered,…

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I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that.

Art

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Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past.

Beauty

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Making art in which you're learning is something I always strive towards.

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I coach and I teach, so I know how to work with people. But I still went onto YouTube and looked up…

Coach

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Cinema hasn't necessarily given that agency to people of color's perspectives. We haven't allowed for whatever that power is from the silver…

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I've always been interested in what Black subjectivity truly looks like. It's not something that can ever be absolute or final. And…

Camera

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You have politicians in the U.S. who think they know the best ways to govern communities, but they've never been in these…

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I can't think of any better tribute to the Dozier School Boys than for their story, which is about their literal visceral…

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My father was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 1950s and early 60s. We'd visit there often, what…

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To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think…

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What a thing of free will to be in the air and to have that much control over one's directionality, up, down,…

Control

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My relationship to photography growing up was like, the idea of photojournalism or newspapers - it's far less art or marketing. It…

Art

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It's an interesting thing - that film fills in for history - because I think it's both one of the most beautiful…

Beautiful

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To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at…

Cinema

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I love this phrase called 'experiential monument.' What is an experiential monument? It's like a type of history that is experiential, that…

Experiential

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I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no…

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The South is my home and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain.

Brain

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Going to RISD allowed me to locate where the work I was inclined to make could live.

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I mean this respectfully, but another person's priorities are not my priorities.

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Ideas are always the source of the work. The form needs to emerge from the idea, not be top-down.

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Micro-looking processes that are human are what I was interested in. How can you use the camera to mime the way that…

Camera

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To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of…

Experience

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Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white…

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I think maybe people who are in the position to continually fight for things we know to be true and factual need…

Fight

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I would say something like, 'Mom I want to be a flutist that plays underwater,' and she'd reply with, 'son, you can…

Day

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From the moment you show someone making a decision on film, you judge that moment and that starts to build your point…

Character

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Having a biracial mother who had these really eclectic interests that were partly capable because she was so fair-skinned, and having my…

Culture

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One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's…

Being

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Films typically peddle in meaning with big things and make connections between events. They don't peddle in images in the same way…

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I want to say documentary filmmakers are some of the most conscious media makers, the most empathetic, though sometimes empathy is the…

Documentary

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Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but…

Cinema

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I can frame with the best of them - at least my version of framing - but to build the emotion of…

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We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form…

Experience

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The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal…

Books

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My relationship to photography and film is knowledge production, and it's how to engage with the world in a way that approximates…

Cinema

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Imagine something where you are just provided with the truth, which is something that everyone deserves. It's insane that's a line like…

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