Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir is a memoir short about anti-Blackness in America by multi-award-winning avant-garde filmmaker Pamela Woolford.
NPR Best Book author Marita Golden calls it “a very powerful testimony.”
The film has a soundtrack by the legendary Bob James and the late jazz-great Eric Dolphy, who died as a result of anti-Blackness only months after recording the once long-lost, 1964 avant-garde composition featured in Interrupted. Entitled “A Personal Statement,” the 15-minute song was written by Bob James and centers on the operatic vocal line, “Jim Crow might one day be gone.”
Bob James calls Interrupted a “brave and powerful (and necessary) work of art.”
For more information or to attend the online launch event with the filmmaker, Bob James, Marita Golden, and more, visit mem-noir.com.