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- 2023
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- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 13 m
- 2023
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 13 m
Summary Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves while confronting issues long avoided.
Directed By: D. Smith
- 2023
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 13 m
- 2023
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 13 m
Kokomo City
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Summary Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves while confronting issues long avoided.
Directed By: D. Smith
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Kokomo City is a vibrant, original work, shot in black and white, in a kaleidoscopic blend of monologues, conversations, and re-enactments. At a moment when the American right are obsessed with criminalizing health care for transgender people and erasing Black history, it’s also timely.
Punchy delivery styles, shimmering personalities and kaleidoscopic perspectives make up the soul of D. Smith’s gutsy documentary Kokomo City
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It culminates in a bold exploration of transness, womanhood, Blackness and the sex industry, providing thoughtful and intimate insight into these material conditions and the breadth of experience that lies behind them.
The questions may not be pre-approved by GLAAD, but they’re coming from a trans woman actively working against the usual feel-good talking points; the responses she gets are frank, funny and frequently shocking.
Kokomo City, D. Smith’s impressive debut documentary about Black trans sex workers, arrives in time to be an audacious, endearing, illuminating, often amusingly ribald primer.
As with a lot of first-time feature filmmakers, Smith shows a tendency to want to throw everything a her film stylistically – including, at one point, the random use of bright yellow subtitles – which makes certain sections feel unnecessarily skittish.
The film’s most significant accomplishment is the mood it crafts with its cool black-and-white images, fast-paced editing, unorthodox camera angles, handheld camera, and overall jazzy atmosphere.
Production Company
Couch Potatoe Pictures,
Madison Square Films
Release Date Jul 28, 2023
Duration 1 h 13 m
Rating R
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 5 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 3 Nominations
