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“So you wanna make this movie with me?” says Khalik Allah, talking to his girlfriend Camilla at the start of his third feature IWOW (2020). “It’ll be a simple movie, just everyday stuff.” Having worked with Beyoncé on Lemonade (2016), then been to Jamaica and back for his second feature Black Mother (2018), with IWOW, the filmmaker returns to more familiar territory. The majority of this new film was made on the same corner of Harlem that he made his first feature Field Niggas (2015)—the place he’s spent much of the last decade refining his photographic practice.”
Short essay on Khalik Allah’s IWOW, forthcoming in the Frames of Representation 2020 catalogue.