by Patrick Ball
In Rebecca Hall’s devastatingly delicate Passing, light plays a powerful role. One I haven't seen in many films before. The use and placement of natural and artificial light introduces and reintroduces us to the characters over and over. Depending on how the situation suits them, they bask in it, hide from it, are able to play up their ruses, daring us to look a little closer, or cling to shadows, to the safety of the shade.
As many of us in America came to a new and widened understanding of the foundational race issues in our country following the deaths of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor last year, and the resulting national reckoning that came after, I spent a lot of time considering how my experience as an “ethnically ambiguous” mixed-race black person has shaped my perception of race, and of media. In Passing, Tessa Thompson...
In Rebecca Hall’s devastatingly delicate Passing, light plays a powerful role. One I haven't seen in many films before. The use and placement of natural and artificial light introduces and reintroduces us to the characters over and over. Depending on how the situation suits them, they bask in it, hide from it, are able to play up their ruses, daring us to look a little closer, or cling to shadows, to the safety of the shade.
As many of us in America came to a new and widened understanding of the foundational race issues in our country following the deaths of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor last year, and the resulting national reckoning that came after, I spent a lot of time considering how my experience as an “ethnically ambiguous” mixed-race black person has shaped my perception of race, and of media. In Passing, Tessa Thompson...
- 11/12/2021
- by Patrick Ball
- FilmExperience
'Real World: Hollywood' castmember released Fireworks at the Fairground last week.
By Jim Cantiello
Brianna Taylor
Photo: Big Machine Media
"The Real World: Hollywood" castmember and Universal recording artist Brianna Taylor is all about the yin and the yang. When things in her life get bad, something totally awesome is waiting just around the corner.
"When I auditioned for 'The Real World,' I got peed on by a puppy at the airport, I lost my luggage ... and then they called and said, 'Oh, you're on "The Real World, Season 20!" ' " Taylor told MTV News. Then, right before her Universal Records audition, she was caught in an icky crossfire. "I was walking in with my old guitarist Brendan. He sneezed, and a booger flew back and hit me in my arm," Taylor giggled. Ten minutes after her audition, Universal called to say they wanted to add her to their roster.
By Jim Cantiello
Brianna Taylor
Photo: Big Machine Media
"The Real World: Hollywood" castmember and Universal recording artist Brianna Taylor is all about the yin and the yang. When things in her life get bad, something totally awesome is waiting just around the corner.
"When I auditioned for 'The Real World,' I got peed on by a puppy at the airport, I lost my luggage ... and then they called and said, 'Oh, you're on "The Real World, Season 20!" ' " Taylor told MTV News. Then, right before her Universal Records audition, she was caught in an icky crossfire. "I was walking in with my old guitarist Brendan. He sneezed, and a booger flew back and hit me in my arm," Taylor giggled. Ten minutes after her audition, Universal called to say they wanted to add her to their roster.
- 10/21/2009
- MTV Music News
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