A poetic quest in coastal South Carolina unearths Black inheritance amidst a violent past.

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Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, After Sherman is a reclamation of Black life and space.

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* “American history is littered with unfinished conversations. If we are smart, we listen, we follow these murmurs and we see where they lead. Jon-Sesrie Goff does just that in After Sherman.” - Review in The Hollywood Reporter ([link removed])

* “A work that speaks to, as the director says, ‘a history of knowing who we are and whose we are.’” - Review in The New York Times ([link removed])

* “Sometimes an essay, sometimes a poem, sometimes a meditation, sometimes a denunciation and sometimes a celebration...” - Review in Documentary Magazine ([link removed])

* “Goff seeks not to vanquish or reconcile this conflict so much as he looks to embrace the beauty inherent within these contradictions for Black Southerners like himself...” - Review in The Playlist ([link removed])

* “That’s the gift that I ultimately wanted to give the community was a reflection back of all the love that they showered on me.” - Filmmaker Interview in The Moveable Feast ([link removed])

* “I also wanted to show my love for this place, for the landscape, the people.” - Filmmaker Interview on All Of It | WNYC ([link removed])

“Racism is a national crisis, and I wouldn’t say it’s unique to Charleston or to South Carolina, so I wanted to show something that was also prideful because I still love South Carolina and the low country, so I had to show my vision of the space. That’s when I knew I had to keep on with the film.” -Jon-Sesrie Goff, Filmmaker
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