Black Cinema Series: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

@ “Visually lush and sweeping in scope, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a poignant and richly sensorial portrait of a Black woman’s life in Mississippi. Each scene represents a snapshot in the life of Mackenzie, better known as Mack, among her friends and family: as a child in the year 1970, learning how to fish with her father; as a teenager, flirting with her best-friend-turned-crush; being cradled as a baby by her mother. The film moves freely in time, reveling in the beauty of nature and the minutiae of human connection—a pair of intertwined hands, a slow, swaying dance, a lingering hug—as its characters contend with love, loss, grief, joy, and the unexpected moments that shape a life. Shot on 35mm film, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.” -Cornell Cinema Runtime: 92 min Anpa’o Locke is an Afro-Indigenous writer, filmmaker, and curator who is Húŋkpapȟa Lakota and Ahtna Dené (Village of Tazlina), born in the Standing Rock Nation and now residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico.She was a 2023 Native Lab Fellow and a 2022 Full Circle Fellow at the Sundance Institute, where she developed her upcoming short film Kawá, which follows an Afro-Indigenous teen reconnecting with her Native roots. Anpa’o’s work is dedicated to amplifying Indigenous narratives in cinema. In 2023, she co-curated Imagining Indigenous Cinema at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. This groundbreaking series highlighted over 40 films by US-based Indigenous artists in the post-Standing Rock era. She has also worked as a writer for PBS Digital Studios’ Sovereign Innovations and as an Associate Producer for Best Case Studios. Center for ContemporaryArts Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live