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Examining the destructive effects of medical racism on two families, Aftershock is both an intimate portrait and a call to action.
Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt’s powerful documentary follows the aftermath of the preventable deaths of two Black women from complications during childbirth. Focusing on the family and loved ones of Shamony Makeba Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac, Aftershock sensitively yet urgently links the families’ personal grief to a larger, systemic issue of medical racism.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are three times more likely than white women to die in childbirth. Aftershock takes that number and translates it into a human experience. Simultaneously galvanizing and devastating, Aftershock is an essential component of Resting Places, serving as a reminder of the ways medical racism and anti-Blackness prevent Black mothers from reaching old age and dying on their own terms—with agency, dignity, and support. (90 mins., DCP)
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IMAGE CAPTION Aftershock, courtesy of Hulu.
Review: “A Moving Ode to the Black Family, Beandrea July, New York Times
Feature: “‘Aftershock,’ Amy Smith, Next Best Picture
Feature: “Documentary Gut-Punch Aftershock Reveals the Deadly Reality of Giving Birth While Black,” Natalia Keogan, Paste Magazine
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WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family National Endowment for the Arts Ohio Arts Council L Brands Foundation The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
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Past Film/Video
Aftershock
