Screening Alan Greenberg’s Land of Look Behind (1982), an extraordinary but overlooked document of Jamaica in the early 1980s—a nation negotiating the psychic and material afterlives of Independence, neocolonialism, and a fading dream of socialism in the wake of U.S. imperial incursions.
Filmed after Bob Marley’s assassination, the film moves between the myth-soaked mountains of Cockpit Country and the streets of Kingston, tracing the sounds and scenes of a nation mourning and the philosophies that shape the social and spiritual landscape.
