The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

Ja'Tovia Gary asks Black women on the streets of Harlem whether they feel safe, and sets their answers beside footage of herself in Claude Monet's gardens at Giverny, archive of Nina Simone, and the livestreamed aftermath of a police shooting. The film moves between documentary and collage.

It's an experimental work about safety, beauty and who is allowed to rest. Gary uses hand-painted film and repetition to make the viewer stay with images we're used to scrolling past.