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Medicine for Melancholy : Micah Searches for Jo

After a brief phone call, Micah (Wyatt Cenac) searches on bike and foot to find where Jo (Tracey Heggins) is staying, knocking on doors repeatedly. Eventually, when he finds her and returns her wallet, he asks to come up to the apartment; she allows him to.

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180-degree rule, camera height, character development, close-up, exterior, extreme close-up, extreme long shot, eyeline match, interior, iris, jump cut, key light, lighting, location, long shot, low-key lighting, match cut, medium close-up, mobile framing, montage, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, naturalistic acting, plot, point-of-view shot, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, voice-off

Diversity in Media Representation

Black, Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman

"Micah Searches for Jo" in Medicine for Melancholy. Directed by Barry Jenkins, Bandry, 2008, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2977

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user George Elkind

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