.antebellumfilm directors gerardbush and ChristopherRenz discuss their new film— a horrific and surprising look at slavery through a contemporary lens.
is both jarring and polarizing, and that’s exactly the point. Written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, their debut feature film follows a modern woman named Veronica as she is seemingly transported to the Antebellum South, where she assumes the name of Eden as an enslaved woman. What unfolds is a horrific and surprising look at slavery through a contemporary lens.
CHRISTOPHER RENZ: But at the same time, it should be jarring. It should be something that’s completely different. I mean, the allegory of the film is providing a modern context for American slavery and showing what happened before, which was completely different, obviously—the lives of people before they were brought over here. That was something that we definitely wanted to show because as you know, in the U.S. there’s nothing on Black history before slavery.
RENZ: We also wanted to make sure that we were respectful of the plantation and the cabins of the enslaved people. We didn’t shoot in them. We built replicas further down the row. So we were shooting in that location, but not in the actual cabins. BUSH: We really did not think specifically about humor. We thought more about accurately depicting these particularly accomplished Black women in their lives. It was really important to depict the extraordinary nature of Black women and how they relate to one another as girlfriends and as people that are having to deal with a lot of issues, but in a way that is quite dignified.
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