Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross
Part of Ellipses Film Series
Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross is the first film to be explored in our monthly film series Ellipses. Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South—trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
about ramell ross
RaMell Ross is an artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Rhode Island and Alabama. His work has appeared in places like The New York Times, Aperture, Harper’s Magazine, TIME Magazine, Oxford American, and the Walker Arts Center. He has been awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. He recently had a solo exhibition at Aperture Gallery in NY. His feature documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards and has screened at Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Hammer Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art – London, Museum of Moving Image, and Lincoln Center. Ross double majored in English and Sociology at Georgetown University and teaches in Brown University’s Visual Art Department. Images from South County, AL (a Hale County) and new work will be displayed in a solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum in late 2020.
Featured In
Film Comment – Sundance Interview: RaMell Ross
The Atlantic – The Documentary That Bucks Oscar Trends—And Still Got a Nomination
Aperture – Hale County Revisited
The New York Times – Review: A Multiplicity of Moments in Under 80 Minutes in ‘Hale County’
The Criterion – How the Qatsi Trilogy Gave RaMell Ross a New Way of Seeing