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April 19, 2017
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
The NW Film Center
at the Portland
Art Museum
presents the 1999
documentary
“Sud,” also called
“The South,” a
documentary about
the nature of hate
and violence and
inspired after the
murder of James
Byrd Jr., the African-
American man
dragged behind a
vehicle to his death.
Hate and Violence Collide
The bold and visionary Belgium
filmmaker Chantal Anne Akerman
had long planned to shoot a film
about the American south — and
finally took that opportunity just
before the new millennium after
James Byrd, Jr., an African-Amer-
ican man, was dragged behind a
vehicle for three miles to his death
by three white supremacists in
Jasper, Texas.
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This truly horrific act spurred
Akerman to focus on the nature
of hate and the violence it so often
brings forth in the documentary
“Sud,” also called “The South.”
The 1999 film will be screened on
Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m. at the
Portland Art Museum, downtown,
as part of a NW Film Center series
on Akerman’s works.
Shooting in her characteris-
tically incisive and patient doc-
umentary mode, details of the
murder and subsequent court pro-
ceedings are intercut with pastoral
imagery of the Texas countryside,
creating a direct link between the
absolute terror of racial violence
and the seemingly innocuous
landscape.
Admission is $9 for adults and
$8 for students and seniors.