| Summary: | <p class="BodyA">Collective memory as an essential component to the survival of African people, enslaved and brutalized, dispersed and disoriented, finds an expression in <em>VOLTA VOLTA</em>. This expression begins quietly, gently, as we see images of Black bodies engaged in ritual spaces, such as young women dressed in white for a church ceremony, and ritual exchanges, like a man shaving himself in a small handheld mirror. These moments of the first half of the film are treated with a delicacy and patience to match their reverence, allowing for the viewer to sit through any restlessness that surfaces as the camera observes with a steady gaze, and to arrive at a place of <em>knowing</em>.</p>
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