Kartina Richardson is a filmmaker and founder of Mirrorfilm.org, a
film commentary and video essay site. For Richardson, film is first and
foremost an emotional and existential medium, creating experiences for
viewers that can’t be explained intellectually.
“I grew up
watching classic and foreign films nonstop,” she said, “and I try to
discuss film in a way that maintains its magic, that doesn’t
one-dimensionalize it,” Richardson, who is multiracial, often felt a
stranger in her devotion to and knowledge of American and European film.
She
now explores representations of people of color in the films she loves
in her series ‘Race in Film’ at MirrorFilm.org. Her musings appear at
her site thismoi.com.
