Moments Without Proper Names

Avery Brooks, Joe Seneca, and Roscoe Lee Brown read from the writings of Gordon Parks, while images from Parks' photography alternate with the speakers.

Parks is best known for directing SHAFT, but before then he had had a long and varied career, including photographer and writer; his first major movie, THE LEARNING TREE, was from his own novel. The writings these three fine actors recite are from fiction and non-fiction, but they capture in words what his photographer's lens sees, and by putting them into words, strengthen them.

I don't consider this particularly cinematic, but it is enormously powerful and moving.