Pass Over

"This contemporary reinvention of Samuel Beckett's absolute classic, 'Waiting for Godot' (with echoes of James Baldwin), is a collaboration born as a play written by African-American playwright Antoinette Nwandu in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin, and directed by Danya Taymor. 'Pass Over' is thus a cinematic adaptation not of the play itself, but of its experience as such, filmed during a performance and directed by legendary Spike Lee ('Do the Right Thing') in collaboration with Taymor. The result is not only the translation of what happens on stage into cinematic language (with Lee's recognizable seal), but also contains audience reactions during the development of the play. It is a work that gives an entirely new meaning to the African-American point of view: the absurdity of living on the margins, in the invisible and inevitable prison of systemic racism."