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  • 5/16/2025
How does trying to reconnect with collaborators of a S-8 film made nearly 50 years ago turn into a revealing portrait of | dG1fVERrRVBzbkRwdTg
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00:01I can't understand why people would be afraid of the black man.
00:07I hope one day comes that anybody can love one another.
00:19Lucky that the tape is working okay.
00:23There it is.
00:25This is 1976.
00:27It's all black and white?
00:29It's all black and white.
00:30And I made it with this guy in these House of Projects.
00:36What's difficult is not knowing how Don's going to react.
00:40If he remembers it, does he remember it as magical as I did?
00:43Did it matter to him?
00:45Oh my god, now I recognize you. Look at that.
00:48I recognize you, man.
00:5046 years ago, you came into the south in Boston looking to make a film.
00:57Some people said it's about being exploded.
01:00They would say you're never going to see him again.
01:02I couldn't sleep so I actually took a sleeping pill.
01:07I still couldn't sleep.
01:09I was just thinking about what happened.
01:12I think it was you'll find Kevin.
01:15Kevin Thames?
01:16From Cathedral?
01:17Yes.
01:18Kevin's a kid that's 10 years old that has a scar that covers half of his face.
01:22He has overcome a great deal and is a pretty strong person.
01:26After I left the Blackstone from the last time we met, they started bussing.
01:30I remember that.
01:31You had the adults throwing bottles and bricks at the buses.
01:36When I grow up, I wish I had a nice house without moving somewhere without no fight and no rides.
01:46It scarred me for life.
01:47I understand.
01:48It scarred me.
01:49No, you don't understand.
01:51Once I left home, it was like boom.
01:53I didn't turn back.
01:54Never came back.
01:55I never came back.
01:56That's probably why I'm still alive.
01:58A whole lot of them are then gone, man.
02:00And I lived there.
02:02I don't know what happened.
02:05Something happened.
02:07It may appear that it's changed, but it ain't changed.
02:10No.
02:11No.
02:12There are still kids out there that are going through this.
02:15Where'd you go?
02:17Where'd you go?
02:18I turned away and then you were gone.

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