{"id":10880,"date":"2021-12-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10880"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:56:28","slug":"test-pattern-movie-directed-by-shatara-michelle-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10880","title":{"rendered":"Test Pattern movie \u2013 Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cast:&nbsp;<\/strong>Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean<br>The love story that dominates the first 15 minutes of Shatara Michelle Ford\u2019s tight and stunning feature-length directorial debut is seductive. Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) meets Evan (Will Brill) at a bar. When they run into one another at a grocery store sometime later, a romance starts to unfold. But&nbsp;<em>Test Pattern&nbsp;<\/em>is not about love. It\u2019s about bodily autonomy and what happens when a Black woman\u2019s is ripped from her, first by a predator and then by someone she loves. One night, well into her and Evan\u2019s relationship, Renesha goes out with a friend. They are targeted by two men and encouraged to drink and take weed gummies. Renesha ends up in a strange bed with no idea how she got there. In the aftermath, Evan drivers her to get a rape kit, a gesture that slowly becomes more and more oppressive as they realize how difficult it is to obtain one in Texas. Evan\u2019s insistence starts out with concern for Renesha\u2019s well-being, but turns into a violation\u2014a white man having little regard for what his Black girlfriend is actually experiencing. Ford\u2019s use of music to shape tension is astounding, as is the way she films Renesha\u2019s trauma.&nbsp;<em>Test Pattern&nbsp;<\/em>is a tense, upsetting film, that is nonetheless utterly striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival in 2019 and was released in 2021 by Kino Lorber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast:&nbsp;Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail BeanThe love story that dominates the first 15 minutes of Shatara Michelle Ford\u2019s tight and stunning feature-length directorial debut is seductive. Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) meets Evan (Will Brill) at a bar. When they run into one another at a grocery store sometime later, a romance starts to unfold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18889,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions\/18889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}