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A Love Letter to the South (2025) VHS (9:31 minutes) New Orleans, Kenner, Utica, Jackson, Bolton

A Love Letter to the South is a short film by DesTenee Green, offering an intimate, reverent gaze into the enduring spirit of Southern life. Set across New Orleans, Jackson, Utica, and Bolton, Mississippi, the film moves like a meditation—layering sound, sermon, memory, and movement into a living altar of Black Southern legacy.

Through the voices of ministers in rural churches, the rhythms of street performers, and the quiet power of a farmer safeguarding inherited land, the piece honors what has been held onto—despite the weight of history. Interwoven are tender reflections from Green’s own family, who speak of hand-stitched quilts and land secured by a grandfather’s vision, offering a generational account of faith, care, and making do.

At once personal and collective, A Love Letter to the South becomes a visual hymn—one that praises the ordinary, protects the sacred, and renders visible the everyday acts of inheritance, resistance, and devotion.