Jon-Sesrie Goff is the Museum Specialist for Film at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and a multidisciplinary artist whose work crosses different mediums and platforms. His practice explores the intersection of race, power, identity, gender and the environment by unearthing the visceral representational value and authenticity behind the images propelled across varying diasporas. Goff has a MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University.
Legacy of ’68: Sticks and Stones
“The title of David Weiss’s documentary is charged with centuries of racialized symbolism. Although symbolically buried by the NAACP in 2007, the ‘n-word’ continues to sting from beyond the grave.” Jon-Sesrie Goff, Museum Specialist for Film at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, writes about this newly restored 1968 film and the important role of vérité in the African American anti-war movement.