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RaMell Ross

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369 total appearances

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And the person whose truck I was on, it was a gooseneck trailer, open air. We got him from this website, YouShip. He didn't know I was in there.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, we told him that it was a kinetic sculpture.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, we told him that it was a kinetic sculpture.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, we told him that it was a kinetic sculpture.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because, you know, lights would go on and off and there would maybe be some movements. And we know that he didn't know what kinetic meant. We don't even know what kinetic sculpture means. But, like, that mystery will allow him to, like, accept that... weird stuff is happening and don't call the police. But he didn't know I was in.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because, you know, lights would go on and off and there would maybe be some movements. And we know that he didn't know what kinetic meant. We don't even know what kinetic sculpture means. But, like, that mystery will allow him to, like, accept that... weird stuff is happening and don't call the police. But he didn't know I was in.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because, you know, lights would go on and off and there would maybe be some movements. And we know that he didn't know what kinetic meant. We don't even know what kinetic sculpture means. But, like, that mystery will allow him to, like, accept that... weird stuff is happening and don't call the police. But he didn't know I was in.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so we were worried about if he got suspicious trying to open it. And of course, the liability of human trafficking, like all of these law problems that we can't even account for because we're just regular folks. But in that building of it and being inside of it for 59 hours, like it was supposed to be

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so we were worried about if he got suspicious trying to open it. And of course, the liability of human trafficking, like all of these law problems that we can't even account for because we're just regular folks. But in that building of it and being inside of it for 59 hours, like it was supposed to be

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so we were worried about if he got suspicious trying to open it. And of course, the liability of human trafficking, like all of these law problems that we can't even account for because we're just regular folks. But in that building of it and being inside of it for 59 hours, like it was supposed to be

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

36, 38 hours, but he wasn't as truthful as he could have been, and he had overdriven his hours, and he ended up stopping at a rest stop in Pennsylvania.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

36, 38 hours, but he wasn't as truthful as he could have been, and he had overdriven his hours, and he ended up stopping at a rest stop in Pennsylvania.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

36, 38 hours, but he wasn't as truthful as he could have been, and he had overdriven his hours, and he ended up stopping at a rest stop in Pennsylvania.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I had a GoPro. I had, like... 80 batteries or something and I had enough SD cards and I had a timer on my watch and I had a light in there with a battery and every hour I would change the GoPro battery. And so I could record the whole thing. And that's kind of how I knew. I also have my phone, but I didn't use it

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I had a GoPro. I had, like... 80 batteries or something and I had enough SD cards and I had a timer on my watch and I had a light in there with a battery and every hour I would change the GoPro battery. And so I could record the whole thing. And that's kind of how I knew. I also have my phone, but I didn't use it

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I had a GoPro. I had, like... 80 batteries or something and I had enough SD cards and I had a timer on my watch and I had a light in there with a battery and every hour I would change the GoPro battery. And so I could record the whole thing. And that's kind of how I knew. I also have my phone, but I didn't use it

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

So, yeah, so I wondered over the course of it, like, if the door was open, like, how beautiful. If I could just, like, see the landscape from a boxcar. And, of course, it's great migration, you know, from that perspective. But the origin of the project is thinking about the reverse of Henry Box Brown, who shipped himself out of slavery in the mid-1800s.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

So, yeah, so I wondered over the course of it, like, if the door was open, like, how beautiful. If I could just, like, see the landscape from a boxcar. And, of course, it's great migration, you know, from that perspective. But the origin of the project is thinking about the reverse of Henry Box Brown, who shipped himself out of slavery in the mid-1800s.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

So, yeah, so I wondered over the course of it, like, if the door was open, like, how beautiful. If I could just, like, see the landscape from a boxcar. And, of course, it's great migration, you know, from that perspective. But the origin of the project is thinking about the reverse of Henry Box Brown, who shipped himself out of slavery in the mid-1800s.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And the idea that, you know, people of color and Black folks... need to or should or I'm encouraging them, as many people are, to go back to the South, to reverse migrate and to claim land and to sort of dilute.