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# Oscar Nominee Garrett Bradley’s “America” Is Now Streaming on Field of Vision
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/oscar-nominee-garrett-bradley-america-streaming-on-field-of-vision/
- Published: 2021-11-01T18:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-07T22:01:09.000Z
- Description: In this award-winning cinematic omnibus, the acclaimed director reimagines an archive of the Black experience through original visions of a radical past.
- Author: Field of Vision
- Tags: Announcement, Field of Vision, Film Announcements, Garrett Bradley, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

In Garrett Bradley’s *America*, Black joy is integral to Black history. The acclaimed short film, now available to watch at [Field of Vision](https://bit.ly/3BBjp0b?ref=hyperallergic.com), reimagines lost moments in African-American cinema in black and white — and offers original visions of a radical past.

Inspired by the earliest known feature-length film with an all-black cast, Bert Williams’s *Lime Kiln Club Field Day*, Bradley conjures a series of vignettes rooted in New Orleans that explore joy, domesticity, and triumph for her cinematic omnibus. *America* challenges the idea of Black cinema as a “wave” or “movement in time,” proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement. The film is scored by Trevor Mathison, a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective.

*America* is Bradley’s third film with Field of Vision. She also directed [*Like*](https://bit.ly/3nFnlI1?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [*The Earth is Humming*](https://bit.ly/3vVHUUp?ref=hyperallergic.com), and is a Field of Vision fellow.

*America* premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019, was nominated for an International Documentary Association Award for Best Short, and won the Sheffield/Doc Fest Short Award. The film was also the centerpiece of a celebrated weeklong screening series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

*America* is both a standalone film and a multi-channel video installation. The installation has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New Orleans Museum of Art, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

**Watch *America* today on** [**Field of Vision**](https://bit.ly/3BBjp0b?ref=hyperallergic.com)**,** [**Vimeo**](https://bit.ly/3mBhaWq?ref=hyperallergic.com)**, and** [**YouTube**](https://bit.ly/3mAexUF?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**

[Field of Vision](https://bit.ly/3GzcfwO?ref=hyperallergic.com) *is a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that commissions, creates, and supports original short-form and feature-length nonfiction films and episodic series about developing and ongoing stories around the globe.*