All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Raven Jackson used to be a poet and is still a photographer. You can see traces of both in her feature debut, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (a line from a poem), a deeply meditative celebration of rural black life on the Mississippi. The film starts with long, slow, close-ups of a girl and her daddy fishing by a river, the father calmly and quietly instructing his daughter when to pay out a bit more line and when to slowly start winding it in with a fish on the end. From here a series of languid scenes tracking the girl, Mackenzie, through life at home with her sister and parents, forwards in … Read more