Interchange – Who Gets To Tell Our Stories? Charles Burnett and the Responsibility of the Artist

Published: March 13, 2018, 10:20 p.m.

“[Burnett] really invites us, the viewer to, not take a position, but to say, this is what it is, do you wanna do anything about it?…In the banality of oppression, the every day reality of oppression, a toll, a profoundly tragic toll, is demanded of black people.” – Michael Martin “His filmmaking is so quiet. …