Days After Your Departure

A stunning poem/essay about changes that take place with the loss of ones mother. Beautifully directed and shot in NYC annd Haiti. I happened to stumble across this on HBO - a happy accident.

Thank-you for sharing your story with us. Beautiful spoken & shot.

How one categories the emotions of loss to articulate them visually and cinematically, I don't know. Yet, writers and filmmakers do it time and time again, across the screen for viewers like us to see, connect, relate and heal.

JoeKenneth's work does this for me.

His words and his journey couldn't be more poignant than in this cinematic form of a human grappling with loss and departure while also finding ones self and voice.

It seems almost uncanny to review a work so near to a heart I'll never physically see, but I can do it because the heart of the subject has been left in these ten minutes.

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Something you would expect to see at a film festival not HBO. Thank God it was only 10 minutes long.

I heard about this film after friend of mine told me about Joekenneth's work. The storytelling is unlike anything I've seen previously. Rooted in poetry, the visuals accompany and even elevate the narrative of the film. It's raw, moving, beautiful, but above all it's a story that all can relate to. Once you've seen it, you'll want to watch it over and over again.