Artist Thomas Allen Harris, who’s shown work at the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, brings his sensibility to an ambitious documentary series on black identity.
The varied issues of Africans and African-Americans is the point of “AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange” an innovative series that airs on the documentary channel WORLD and is hosted by The Daily Show‘s Wyatt Cenak. Each episode is really a full-length documentary telling a different story, from the effort to get Africans hooked on solar energy to a profile on the queen of Calypso music. Sunday’s episodic film, That’s My Face, is directed by Thomas Allen Harris, a prolific gay artist and producer who’s shown work at the Whitney Biennial and won Guggenheim and Sundance fellowships. Harris spoke to us about his Brazilian-based film, his childhood in Africa, and some of the projects he’s working on through his company, Chimpanzee Productions.
By Neil Broverman
(published online February 03, 2012)
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