Snow on Tha Bluff: A forgotten ‘found-footage’ masterwork.
On Damon Russell’s intelligent but forgotten realist film.
The opening sequence of Damon Russell’s 2011 film, Snow on tha Bluff, genuinely caught me off guard. A handheld camera held in the passenger seat of a car parks on a street, and the film’s lead Curtis Blow enters the frame. Instantly, the realism of his performance is…