Where the Pavement Ends
79m30s
“A powerful, impressionistic meditation on the persistence of racial injustice...
Where the Pavement Ends shows how past injustices prefigure those of today.”
—The Boston Globe, Peter Keough
Streaming at PBS.ORG:
https://www.pbs.org/video/where-the-pavement-ends-5eg5k8/
The death of Michael Brown, shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in 2014, was national news after protests erupted there. But the history of Ferguson, a formerly whites-only "sundown town,” and the neighboring black town of Kinloch, now semi-abandoned, is not well known. Incorporating reflections of residents of Kinloch and Ferguson (including Gillooly, who grew up in Ferguson), this film explores the relationship between these two towns. Beginning with a 1960s roadblock that divided then-white Ferguson from black Kinloch, the film depicts a micro-history of race relations in America.
PBS America ReFramed (2020), MoMA DocFortnight, Full Frame Documentary
Film Festival, CIFF, ICA Boston, Saint Louis Int’l. Film Festival, and others
Available for educational use through Torch Films.
Directed by: Jane Gillooly
Written and Edited by: Khary Saeed Jones and Jane Gillooly
Produced by: Jane Gillooly, Aparna Agrawal, and Khary Saeed Jones
Cinematographer: Kamau Bilal