SUNDAY 26th MARCH 2006
9PM
R10
INDEPENDENT ARMCHAIR THEATRE
LOWER MAIN ROAD, OBSERVATORY
On June 7, 1998, a sleepy east Texas town awoke to the news of a horrifying crime. James Byrd Jr, an African-American was viciously beaten, chained to a pick-up truck and dragged until his body disintegrated. The filmmakers took to the streets during the murderers' trial, using segregated crews only to get the views of a town divided. The resulting portrait in Two Towns of Jasper is an explicit account of the racial divide in America - a disturbing montage of contrasting realities that somehow inhabit the same place and time.
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Posted on Wednesday 15 Mar 2006
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