Los Angeles, the present day: a young Black man is forced to forge documents by his boss, a former friend tries to convince him that Black people are no longer at a disadvantage in the US, his white girlfriend would like to introduce him to her parents (although the nameless protagonist can’t stop thinking of the horror of Jordan Peele’s GET OUT), and then his furiously angry doppelgänger turns up to top things off. Skinner Myer’s radical debut THE SLEEPING NEGRO asks whether Black Americans are not just being led to believe in progress so that they can ultimately feel more content with their own subjugation.
(Arsenal Kino)