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SAPPHIRE AND THE SLAVE GIRL

MOVING IMAGE; 1995.







Sapphire and the Slave Girl video (1995)

In a racially segregated city like Chicago, where you can and can’t go gets complicated. In this video, a mix of found and original footage, I used detective-film genres to investigate the city as a network of missed connections and fluid identities.