Shatara Michelle Ford's film follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape. By Jourdain Searles In Shatara Michelle Ford’s experimental thriller Test Pattern, light and ...

A loving interracial relationship begins to fracture in the wake of a rape, in Shatara Michelle Ford's quietly momentous first feature. Eighty-two minutes is not a long time. And yet Shatara Michelle ...

Unlike some of its A-list competitors at the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford‘s debut film “Test Pattern” was funded on nine credit cards the director took out themself.