New Orleans Talks Back: Documentaries in the Decade Since Hurricane Katrina

New Orleans Talks Back: Documentaries in the Decade Since Hurricane Katrina |#Hurricane Katrina by Jason Bailey First it's a poem, then it's a prayer. But as New Orleans author and actor Phyllis Montana-Leblanc repeats the clarion call of Spike Lee's 2010 film If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, the line becomes a lament, a missive, a protest. Pounding her palm with her fist, she transforms the moment into a beautiful, enraged miniature of the documentary project to reshape the understanding of Hurricane Katrina that emerged in days after the failure of the levee system flooded 80% of the city. Along with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as is tragedy's unfortunate wont, the disaster produced one of the most important bodies of nonfiction filmmaking in the recent American cinema. Here, New Orleans talks back. Read more of this post Jason Bailey | August 27, 2015 at 9:45 am | Tags: Carl Deal, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, naomi klein, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc, Spike Lee, Tia Lessin | Categories: Film | URL:http://wp.me/p2Xrlp-2fak