Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival screens Black Mother

Night two of HIFF 2019 kicks off with this screening of Khalik Allah's documentary that acts as an almost impressionistic poem of Jamaica, where Allah's mother is from and a place he spent time as a child. Recorded on a mix of digital and black-and-white analogue film—with the audio and visuals recorded separately, adding to the flick's dreamlike quality—the movie solidifies his stance as a boundary-pushing documentarian, with HIFF raving "Khalik Allah has established himself as an artist with a singular vision who is revolutionizing how we view documentary film." A Q&A with Allah is held after the credits roll.