RaMell Ross

From a kaleidoscopic portrait of Alabama to a documentary about police violence in the UK, frieze contributors select four must-watch films 

Narrative is often the conduit for racist ideology, particularly in a Hollywood that favours ‘feel good’ narratives of black life; avoiding it altogether reads, then, like a protest

Filmmakers RaMell Ross and Khalik Allah elide the reductive narrative wholeness usually demanded of documentaries about black subjects