Synopsis

 

Opening at what could be the dawn of time tselem follows the image of humanity through time, space, and American history. Traveling from the Ezer’s garden to the early days of the great migration ( The Red summer of 1919) and ending in modern day Brownsville we see and engage with the reality of what it means to be black and human in America. More specifically, tselem deals with the intersection between human experience and black experience and the places the audience firmly within the grasp of America’s defining criteria for humanity, race.