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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.48,0:00:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["New York Close Up"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.66,0:00:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s something that,\Nif you’re quiet enough and you listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.24,0:00:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you’re being guided or directed to uncover\Nspecific bits of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.42,0:00:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s always this act of digging,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.90,0:00:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of like resuscitating life\Nback into those lost fragments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.70,0:00:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Abigail DeVille Listens to History"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.30,0:00:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Contemporary at the Peale Museum, Baltimore]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.94,0:00:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The materials that I choose are already speaking--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.44,0:00:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking to the past through internal intuition.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.90,0:00:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History is deep.\NIt’s dark.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.86,0:01:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It affects everything that’s happening,\Neven at this very moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.32,0:01:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like a rock.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.42,0:01:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can try to tease out little bits\Nin trying to make your way through material
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.46,0:01:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or make a way through space.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.08,0:01:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Abigail DeVille, artist]\NHistory is the tale of the victor, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.74,0:01:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s garbage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.16,0:01:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's garbage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.20,0:01:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like George Washington's "wooden teeth"\Nwere actually teeth from slaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.32,0:01:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.06,0:01:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's nauseating.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.69,0:01:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the more you don't want to know,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.52,0:01:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.57,0:01:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I think the first thing to go in history\Nis the atrocities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.31,0:01:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody wants to remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.48,0:01:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the stuff that has to get swept away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.18,0:02:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cover up--whitewash--is all attributed to\Nthe inability to get over slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.32,0:02:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the hangover that is not going away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.26,0:02:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s merit in the attempt to make something
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.30,0:02:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could talk about something\Nlarger than yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.16,0:02:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are messy,\Nhistory is messy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.62,0:02:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The work needs to…\N[LAUGHS] reflect that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.56,0:02:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking about bureaucracy\Nand things just piling up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.46,0:02:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking about all the voices that were lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.38,0:02:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When things are painful,\Npeople don’t want to talk about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.19,0:02:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can’t forget about\Nthe class of invisible people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.65,0:02:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were present at every single juncture\Nand every single moment
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.97,0:02:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the formation of this country and its myths.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.04,0:03:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the incredible beauties\Nand strengths of African Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.32,0:03:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this propensity for joy and endurance--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.26,0:03:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.60,0:03:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s joy to occupy space in direct opposition\Nor contrast of the dominant narrative.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.10,0:03:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The New Migration," Harlem, New York]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.56,0:03:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SINGING AND PERCUSSION]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.34,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The New Migration" processionals\Nhave been more human-scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.90,0:03:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re usually guerilla performances\Nthat happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.88,0:04:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re unannounced.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.42,0:04:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You encounter them or you don’t.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.04,0:04:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SINGING CONTINUES]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.96,0:04:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DEVILLE]\N--What inspired me to do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.88,0:04:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DEVILLE]\N--It’s based on migration of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.68,0:04:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN]\N--I get your concept,\Nbut where do I fit into that?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.94,0:04:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DEVILLE]\N--Oh, where do you fit into it?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.70,0:04:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Where do you want to fit into it?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.14,0:04:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN]\N--I don't want you to answer that...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.68,0:04:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DEVILLE]\N--That’s for you to figure out!\NYes...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.18,0:04:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN]\N-- ...but it’s what I ask of myself all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.34,0:04:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DEVILLE]\N--Oh, all right! [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.06,0:04:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From 1914 to 1970,\Nthe Great Migration happened
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.79,0:04:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and six million African Americans\Ncame up North
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.15,0:05:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for better opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.88,0:05:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s happening now is this kind of reversal--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.37,0:05:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people being pushed out\Nof places that they moved to.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.12,0:05:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just because it was north didn't mean that\Nthe racial tensions had gone anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.84,0:05:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well yeah, because white supremacy\Nis what's for dinner, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.76,0:05:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SINGING & MUSIC]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.50,0:05:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The New Migration,"\NAnacostia, Washington, D.C.]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.08,0:05:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dragging.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.06,0:05:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking barefoot.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.68,0:05:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the invisible weights\Nthat people are walking around with.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.70,0:05:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weight of history holds you down.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.24,0:05:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought it was important to\Ninsert people where
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.50,0:06:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody knows about what Black people\Nhave contributed to the history of society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.40,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SINGING & MUSIC]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.50,0:06:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SINGING & MUSIC CONTINUES]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.80,0:06:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Martin Luther King’s last speech--\Nthe "Mountaintop Speech"--
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.37,0:06:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says, "Somehow, only when it’s dark enough\Ncan you see the stars."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.56,0:06:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was immediately drawn to the fearless optimism.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.92,0:07:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love feels like this powerful force
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.46,0:07:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that actually could enact change\Nmore than hate ever could.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.66,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think hate causes a kind of exhaustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.02,0:07:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something for me\Nnever to lose sight of--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.90,0:07:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to constantly be reminded of--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.82,0:07:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we, as a people, we're going to get there.