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This film continues to be the manifestation of so many dreams realized. To have it supported and SEEN by people I respect and admire so immensely is everything 💖✨ @ramellross @stacey_reiss @gemjewel26 @pov

Public television. Independent film. Independent thought. Black life — possible, expansive, free. 🐝

shout out to @alepuigsantana whose name was omitted from the press release, but without whom literally none of this would be possible 🙏🏾
And to @raysdwild @ufo_org TBATB family is growing 🐝

[POV Shorts acquisition + RaMell Ross & Stacey Reiss as EPs — Deadline, link in bio] by @ramellross

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2 months ago

A novel. A film. A conversation about what changes in between. 🎬📚

As part of One Book One Denver, we’re spending two nights with Nickel Boys and filmmaker RaMell Ross.

September 2: See Nickel Boys on the big screen at MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater.

September 10: Come back for a conversation with Ross about adaptation, image, memory, and what film can do differently than the page.

See the film. Hear from the director. Or do both. Free with registration. taken in MCA Denver at the Holiday by @ramellross

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2 months ago

“I was determined to try to figure out how to harness that energy exchange between the subject, myself, my paint brush, and the canvas so that they do feel alive”

Amy Sherald and filmmaker and writer, RaMell Ross joined us in conversation around their respective contributions to the art world, their shared inspiration in film and photography, and their approaches to storytelling about the African American experience. Hear the full conversation moderated by Angelica Arbelaez, the High’s Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, now on our YouTube channel. by @ramellross

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4 months ago

What a wonderful night celebrating Amy Sherald: American Sublime 🎤✨

Last night artist @asherald and filmmaker and writer, @ramellross were in conversation around their respective contributions to the art world, their shared inspiration in film and photography, and their approaches to storytelling about the African American experience.

🎟️Amy Sherald: American Sublime opens at the High on May 15! Get your tickets today by visiting high.org

The conversation was moderated by Angelica Arbelaez Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art by @ramellross

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5 months ago

'In the gradual amazement after birth we develop our consciousness, to pilot our bodies from a whisper in our head.' @ramellross⁠
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This mysterious and spellbinding book from filmmaker RaMell Ross explores the magical realism of Hale County, Alabama, the setting of his Academy Award-nominated documentary 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening' (2018) 🎬️⁠
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Read more about the project via link in bio 🔗⁠
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📸 'Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body', RaMell Ross by @ramellross

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7 months ago

given the way the USA is salivating & eating its people, seems apt to share a performance piece from june 2025. i lived 24 hours in a 30x30’ room with an 8/9’ alligator while spreading Hale County, red, Alabama dirt on the floor…

considering alligators’ historical tie to peeps of color in the American South, a little over ten years ago i starting thinking about what it must have felt like in the past (the embodiment, the real-world sense of the feels) to try to make a home amid conspicuous pending violence, violence that is one of our nation's instincts, perhaps its most fundamental modus operandi... a violence that is almost reptilian. thinking of the system at large as an apex predator. the type of attention, one must maintain to survive

i titled the piece: America(n) Jumps the Gator

(yes, this is the same alligator from Nickel Boys. yes, we consulted the appropriate animal rights channels. yes, this was inspired by Joseph Beuys coyote piece. yes, it was terrifying (though the most terrifying part may be that i got used to being in there and it became banal). and yes, i am wearing an alligator vest

the piece was documented by security cameras, by documentarian Kasimu Harris @visionsandverbs (in the MoMA collection now!!), and camera glasses. shout out to my guy/studio manager Bobby Davis @camelcheetah (who wears, literally, all the hats) artist Alex Westfall @westfallalex who did me a huge favor and produced a wild couple weeks of image making, Karen Milliken and her partner Dave @millikensmovieanimals (Milliken Farms (they do amazing work in film (they even handled all the Sinners animals))), Josh at the Fish Pot @fishpotstudios , sir Chip @el_chipacabra for the color temperature and joy, Batou Chandler for the good fight, and the secular gods for their patience with me

1. keeping the system alive
2. studying the system (at Milliken Farms)
3. image by Kasimu
4. image from a security camera
5. 2025 NYFF poster i designed by @ramellross

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8 months ago

A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Alabama. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is now streaming on DocPlay.

Allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds. How does one express the reality of individuals whose public image, lives, and humanity originate in exploitation? Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. by @ramellross

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9 months ago

unsolicitedly, nice to get back to the art practice. i've been taught recently by some new images, projects and performance works. there is so much to learn through making (time). late summer brought this moment, this (clearing my throat) not-sentient-perspective-moment, but a moment from a particular point of view none-the-less. and it's none-r-the-less, epic-banal...

written, directed, cinematography, edit, sound design: me

so many brains and talents, sacrificially, involved in the larger literal experiment this comes from:

producer: Alex Westfall @westfallalex
co-producer: me
associate producer, assistant director & tech: Bobby Davis @camelcheetah

Cast (there are more cast for other moments)
Cayden Thipado - older brother
Cooper Barnes - younger brother
Sylvia Robinson - Healer

Production Team
Chip Carey - gaffer @el_chipacabra
Brandon Holland - gaffer @brandon.content
Batou Chandler - locations manager
Jamey Osborne - sound recordist
Monique Champagne - production designer & set decorator @flambeauxs
(Norah Mendis (we miss you!) @noralux)
Jonathan Cappel - art department
Jason Derek North - art department
Tony Ziegler - art department
Billy Ray McKenna - costume designer @billyraymckenna
Ignacia Soto-Aguilar - hair & make-up artist @ignaciamsa
Reggie Evans - production assistant @reggiebaybthevariety
Quintin Harris - production assistant

big big thanks too the secret people involved who know who they are by @ramellross

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a year ago

In RaMell Ross’s (@ramellross) “Hale’s Angels” (2022), a stretch of Hale County, Alabama’s distinctive red soil is marked by circular and sweeping impressions, described by one writer as “. . . whorls in the soil, winglike shapes left behind on the snowless red earth, the dirt angels of Hale’s Angels.”
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Ross created these imprints in a process he documented on video, which will be shown at Paris Photo alongside the photograph. The video offers processual insight into the work’s making, and as an unembellished record of sound and gesture, the footage serves as an evidentiary companion to the photograph.
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RaMell Ross is featured this week during our 2025 presentation at @parisphotofair. Learn more about our fair program at the link in bio.

#RaMellRoss #ParisPhoto #PerformanceArt #Photography #PaceGallery taken in Grand Palais by @ramellross

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a year ago

nickel boys on jeopardy?!?! cray cray by @ramellross

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a year ago

Dr. Bedour Alagraa and Dr. Rikki Byrd are reimagining how art, theory, and community intersect at UT Austin. Leveraging the interdisciplinary research areas and collaborative spirit within the African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS) department, their yearlong series "Rethinking Aesthetics" explores how creative practices shape our understanding of aesthetics and culture.

"Rethinking Aesthetics" programming opens Oct. 9–10 with a two-day residency featuring Oscar-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross, known for his groundbreaking approach to visual storytelling.

Named after Sylvia Wynter's essay “Rethinking Aesthetics: Notes Towards A Deciphering Practice,” the series reframes Black cultural production. Read more about the inspiration for "Rethinking Aesthetics" at the link in bio.

This program is supported by @warfield_ut @utexasrtf @austinfilm @aads_ut
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Story: Maya Roberson
📷: Rebekah Flake Two professors pose together. Dr. Rikki Byrd is standing with arms crossed and Dr. is sitting, leading against the side of an armchair and resting her chin on her hand. by @ramellross

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In his debut feature, two-time Oscar®️ nominee RaMell Ross (NICKEL BOYS) traces the lives of two young Black men over five pivotal years, offering an intimate and poetic glimpse into rural Alabama. Reflecting on race, identity, and the fabric of the American South, this lyrical documentary "poses a quietly radical challenge to assumptions about race, class, and the aesthetics of filmmaking” (The New York Times).

Ross joins us in-person Friday, October 10, for a post-film Q&A as AFS and the University of Texas' @warfield_ut present a special screening of 2018's HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING.

For tickets and times, visit the link in our bio. by @ramellross

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