Easy to dismiss as “ Cops from the perp’s perspective,” perhaps, this startlingly authentic document of the life of a young, black, crack-dealing single parent - and of the dangers that lurk in poor and working-class black communities - isn’t easy to digest. An incredible combination of found footage, no-budget narrative ingenuity and pulled-from-the-streets doc immediacy, it discovers in its incredibly charismatic and troubled protagonist, Curtis Snow, an American life many of us would probably rather forget about. The line separating documentary and narrative film aesthetics has never been more porous than it is now, but Damon Russell’s revelatory Snow on tha Bluff lives comfortably on that line. In Director Interviews, Directors, InterviewsĬurtis Snow, Damon Russell, Slamdance, Snow on tha Bluff
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