‘Opening the 2016 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Reggie Wilson plummets down into CITIZEN’s subconscious levels asking the core questions: “What does it mean to belong?” and “What does it mean to NOT want to belong?” This multidisciplinary work wrestles with the many implicit and explicit challenges, struggles, judgments, and webbing that exists between the anonymity of the individual and the experiences of being a citizen of one’s homeland or one’s adopted homeland. CITIZEN demands us to consider the contradictions imbedded in the co-existence of our individual self with our civil duties.’
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