Amirah Ellison is a visual artist, writer, and independent curator. She is the Family Engagement Assistant at the Walker, where she aims to connect the institution's resourceswith Minneapolis’s culturally and linguistically diverse families.
Planting a Seed: On the Creation, Loss, and Restoration of Horace Jenkins’s Cane River
“He always told me that he was about telling our stories, and by ‘our’ I mean Black people in America,” says Sacha Jenkins of his father Horace’s 1982 film. “It wasn’t a documentary, but a lot of the things that he believed in as a documentary filmmaker were evident in Cane River.” Amirah Ellison delves into the loss, rediscovery, and restoration of a film that has deep resonance for many Black Americans today—and deep ties to the Ellison family.