Whether its his use of silence or his amazing soundtracks, Barry Jenkins has a talent for pairing the right sounds with his visuals.
The song from his short film Tall Enough:
Whether its his use of silence or his amazing soundtracks, Barry Jenkins has a talent for pairing the right sounds with his visuals.
The song from his short film Tall Enough:
So I’m supposed to be abstaining from films of the romantic kind but I was over at Colorlines checking out the new reality web-series K-Town. In considering comments from the show’s executive producer about the exaggerated stereotypes and the model minority that the media often portrays Asians as, I started to think about Barry Jenkins’s short film Tall Enough. As I said in the comments sections on the Colorlines article, Tall Enough was the first time I’d seen the Chinese language portrayed in a romantic way from an American filmmaker. It completely turned the presentation of Asian languages as comical on its head. Check it out below: