The Miracle Mile Shot (2019)

Directed by

Ithaka Darin Pappas

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary uses a single photograph of the rap group N.W.A. as its visual foundation. With music and on-screen text, it chronologically traces the uses that photograph has had over time.

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What happens

The Miracle Mile Shot is an experimental short subject, non-dialogue documentary film based entirely on a single photograph of the influential Gangsta rap group N.W.A. created on November 11, 1988, in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles, California, by photographer/artist Ithaka Darin Pappas. The photograph itself, also entitled The Miracle Mile Shot, was captured during a photo session that took place at the photographer's home studio apartment at 6516 1/2 Orange Street, Los Angeles. The short film, screened for the first time at the LAGFF on June 19, 2019, visually tells the story (with the aid of music and printed text) of the most important uses of the photograph in chronological order. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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