Shatara Michelle Ford’s brilliant first feature, “Test Pattern” (which is now in virtual cinemas via Kino Marquee), follows a young woman in Austin, Texas, named Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), who meets ...

Shatara Michelle Ford’s lean, smart debut feature confronts us with our presumptions about what rape and victimhood look like — onscreen and in life. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an ...

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Shatara Michelle Ford’s debut feature Test Pattern addresses sensitive material with clinically painstaking detail. The narrative begins in 2017 at an Austin bar as Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) meets ...

Shatara Michelle Ford’s debut feature Test Pattern (2019) centres on interracial couple Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) and Evan (Will Brill). Their relationship is tested when Renesha is sexually ...

“I never ask people, just casually, for their phone number,” Evan (Will Brill) says. This is how he greets Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), a woman he met in a bar some time before, whose number he’d asked ...

That these two vastly different outcomes can stem from the same type of evening is precisely the point. (Though the film is not graphic, the woozy snippets we do see make it clear she was raped.) No ...