In film we look through a lens at our subjects. We use different lenses when we want to change how we capture an image. White people often do not realize that we see the world through a white supremacy lens, simply because that is the cultural context in which we were raised and in which we live. This lens is the standard; yet it is rarely talked about by the white community, rendering it invisible to most white folks.
Interrogating the Whiteness Lens is a project to engage with white people who work in the documentary film industry and want to explore our culture and the painful bias inherent to it, with a vision of transformation.
This project was originally going to be a personal short film. It has become clear to me that it's more important to do the work of interrogating whiteness, then it is to make a film.
I'm still figuring out what this will become. Contact me if you want to join this journey.
Interrogating the Whiteness Lens is a project to engage with white people who work in the documentary film industry and want to explore our culture and the painful bias inherent to it, with a vision of transformation.
This project was originally going to be a personal short film. It has become clear to me that it's more important to do the work of interrogating whiteness, then it is to make a film.
I'm still figuring out what this will become. Contact me if you want to join this journey.
NOTE: The Toni Morrison quote on the left comes from a 1993 interview with Charlie Rose. She talks about a number of issues that white people should think deeply about, including the serviceability of whiteness. Link to the full Morrison interview.