Low Country Lamentations

Abstract

Michael Boyce Gillespie interviews the multidisciplinary artist Jon-Sesrie Goff about his first feature film, After Sherman. He suggests that the film that can been understood as an inquiry that explores a question that has long preoccupied Goff: “What role does documentary play when it is documented or viewed outside of the experience and space it depicts?” Gillespie argues that After Sherman manifests an answer through its expansive and reflexive accounting of culture and place as well as its formal deliberation on blackness, the afterlives of slavery, land as material and cultural inheritance, and home as site of origin and foundation for possible futures.