TY - VIDEO ID - 135229298 TI - Medicine for melancholy AU - Jenkins, Barry AU - Barber, Justin AU - Cenac, Wyatt AU - Heggins, Tracey AU - Strike Anywhere (Firm) AU - Bandry (Firm) AU - Criterion Collection (Firm) PY - 2023 SN - 9798886070422 PB - [New York, NY] The Criterion Collection DB - UniCat KW - Cruising (Sexual behavior) KW - African Americans KW - Bicycles KW - Social life and customs KW - United States KW - Race relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135229298 AB - Barry Jenkins’s captivating debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is a lo-fi romance that unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. There, a one-night stand between two young bohemians, Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo’ (Tracey Heggins), spins off into a woozy daylong affair marked by moments of tenderness, friction, joy, and intellectual sparring as they explore their relationships to each other, the city, and their own Blackness. Shooting on desaturated video, Jenkins crafts an intimate exploration of alienation and connection graced with the evocative visual palette and empathetic emotional charge that have come to define his work. ER -