Birthmarks
by Naima Lowe, 16 mm, Mini DV NTSC, DV Cam, 29 min. and 24 seconds
Birthmarks is an experimental nonfiction film by Naima Lowe featuring her father, Bill Lowe, The film tells the story of the series of small dark scars on Bill’s back that he got when the Newark Police beat him up in 1967, and the ways that fathers and daughters create beauty out of trauma and art out of living.