Yance Ford on Strong Island

S. Macdonald
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After Yance Ford’s brother William was murdered in 1992, when Yance Ford was a college student, she imagined making a film about his death. Finally, in 2017, having worked for many years with television’s POV, seeing independent documentaries into the public arena (and having transitioned to male), Ford completed Strong Island, a feature-length, personal documentary that investigates William’s death within a context of the former and subsequent lives of his parents and siblings. As a crime story, Strong Island is both suspenseful and beautiful to look at. And it is personally performative for Ford. The unusually intimate close-ups of his face, his dramatization of William’s falling to his death in front of the gas station where he was murdered, and his conversations with family and friends dramatize the way in which this family tragedy and cultural injustice continues to inform the lives of those who knew William.
恩塞·福特在斯特朗岛
1992年,当扬斯·福特还是一名大学生的时候,她的哥哥威廉被谋杀,她想象着拍摄一部关于他的死亡的电影。最后,在2017年,福特在电视POV工作了多年,看到独立纪录片进入公共舞台(并过渡到男性),完成了《斯特朗岛》(Strong Island),这是一部长篇个人纪录片,在威廉父母和兄弟姐妹的前世和后世的背景下调查了威廉的死亡。作为一个犯罪故事,《坚强岛》既充满悬念,又很好看。这是福特个人的表现。他脸部的特写镜头,他对威廉在加油站前被谋杀时坠亡的戏剧化描述,以及他与家人和朋友的对话,戏剧化地展现了这个家庭悲剧和文化不公正继续影响着那些认识威廉的人的生活。
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