So ‘Colored Frames’ is moving forward, we send many thanks to our recent interviewees. On some level I saw this stage coming, the deadline, but I believe I had blocked it out for some reason - actually I blocked it out because in the deadline you move from the dream of your project to the absolute practicality of it. Case in point, we’re very aware of that Month now, The Month, you know the one I mean, the one where suddenly all the programs on your television have a Black hue - February to be clear.

We’re not kidding ourselves as filmmakers, we know this is our first best hope to get heard with less, not dramatically less (believe me!), but less bureaucracy. Right after those with the power put down their New Year’s champagne glasses, we need to be right beside them with a Fine cut of ‘Colored Frames.’ We don’t kid ourselves that they will come after us because if there’s anything true about February, it is that everything is recycled; all that The Powers have to do is give a shout to the guy in ‘archives,’ let’s call him Jerry, and he’ll come running with the same old visions of Blackness. I’m not saying good films have not been made, but I believe that there is room in the celebration of Black History - during that, our given month - for new interpretations of that history; for one of the grandest misunderstandings of history, is that it is constant. This is a lie. If only because history up until very (very!) recently, has been documented by the same people, let us call them the victors, it is time that new versions of history come forth, new perspectives on history.

I understand February is centered on Black ‘History,’ but I know once in a while people would appreciate a tale of history without the same old tag lines. I believe Colored Frames is going to be a fresh look, if only because stylistically, one of the first things we envisioned, was a ‘pretty’ movie about Black art so the actual pieces we’ve come across, are very important to the aesthetics of the film. So like I have said before, this is a film about art, art that has been largely ignored if not misrepresented and misunderstood (granted there are no parades being held on behalf of the struggling artists no matter how great she is), but every once in a while we, as a human race, should celebrate the makers.

We started as an attempt to educate ourselves on the ‘texture’ of the landscape out there for Black artists in the last fifty years, and I believe we are well aware now, the next task? Translate that ‘texture’ into words, sounds, cuts, music, invigorating interviews, and a fluent plot - before February!