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Improvement Association

2017 · 12 min

A quiet, unhurried portrait that lets an old man's reflective voice carry you through memory and everyday life.

Overview
Improvement Association features Malik Hudgins, a lifelong member of the UNIA and resident of Philadelphia PA, waxing poetically about life.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • aging
  • race
  • family
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Kevin Jerome Everson
Starring
Malik Hudgins
Runtime
12 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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