RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening - Film Screening

This film screening, sponsored by the Bannister Gallery PFAC Student Group, is held in conjunction with the exhibition in Bannister Gallery, Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross, on view from February 20-March 21, 2025, in Roberts Hall.

RaMell Ross – artist, filmmaker, writer, and liberated documentarian – released his Academy Award-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening in 2018, filming and photographing the residents of a rural community in the Black Belt region of Alabama that Ross calls his adoptive home. Through his large-format color photographs, he explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity. Ross released his first photo book Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body in 2023 and presents a truncated look at this series with a new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures for Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College. RaMell Ross is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Brown University and received his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. His latest film, Nickel Boys, earned nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2025 Academy Awards.