Hale County is the type of film designed to violate common rules of cinema. Story gives way to lyricism; there’s little dialogue, minimal plot, minutes upon minutes of pastoral imagery.

RaMell Ross’ 2018 documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is an attempt to express Black life and history as dynamic and vital. The film never states this directly: Ross avoids ...

A dreamy snapshot of Alabama’s Hale County, taken over five years, the film situates itself squarely in the South, in a Black community revolving around the here and now. Working at the catfish ...

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 ...

Mr. Ross, an interdisciplinary artist, moved to Hale County in 2009. His transcendent 2018 documentary film, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” was nominated for an Academy Award.

His previous film, the groundbreaking, lyrical documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” was nominated for best documentary in 2019. “Hale County” may be less well-known than ...

Ross shot the film, which opens Friday in New York and ... In his most celebrated photography series, “South County, AL (a Hale County),” Ross examined Blackness across a Southern terrain ...

Film director RaMell Ross is unapologetic about his focus on the Black South in his work. His first feature-length documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” captures the ...