Race is a Four Letter Word
Canada 2006 • 55 mins • Director: Sobaz Benjamin • Subtitled
Contains nudity
In Europe and North America, blackness can still seem a burden. It can still brand its possessors as uncivilized, exotic, and menacing. But it can also be prized, lusted after and viewed as a precious enhancement, like a gold foil.
Director Sobaz Benjamin strips away the masks and armour of race, of blackness and whiteness, to reveal the vulnerable and human, and that very concept of sex that inspires so much primal envy and dread. This brave fi lm forces us to unmask and to look unflinchingly at our real selves. In the end, Race Is a Four Letter Word teaches us that the soul has no colour. Yet we also learn that race is a marathon we are all forced to run.
A twenty minute speakers' panel follows every screening:
