You can take Zola out of the internet, but you can’t make the internet out of Zola. Or maybe you have been able, but why would you ever want to? Directed by Janicza Bravo, the cinematic adjustment of the 148 -tweet thread by Aziah “Zola” Wells espouses its online beginnings, adopting the internet as an aesthetic.
The passage of experience is stigmatized by a clock that glances accurately like the one on the lockscreen of your iPhone, the whistling of a Twitter notification interrupts a scene, attributes speak their texts to one another like they’re talking. The talk is heavy in the black slang that tends to become appropriated as Extremely Online slang once they filter out of pitch-black communities into non-black ones. Sometimes, Zola says directly to the camera what you know she’ll tweet about it later. Read more …
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