Fieldwork Footage
Watch TrailerUnder the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1928 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Runtime | 3 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.7/10 (6 votes) |
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The film constructs its narrative as an anthropological field diary, relying on raw, unvarnished footage that serves as the primary protagonist. It explores the tension between documentary recording and the researcher's subjective gaze, between objective fact and lived testimony.
What lingers after viewing is the profound sense of encountering a vital cultural source, where every song and gesture is a story rescued from oblivion. It is a cinematic artifact of immense ethnographic value. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Zora Neale Hurston
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