There is something alchemical or magical about it: The bricks and mullions and windows of our buildings become files of digital data, the pixels
become black spheres meticulously cut, stacked and assembled, the courtyard becomes and contains sculpture — and all the while Federico remains behind the curtain, as if to say «look ma, no hands.»
Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged
black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied
sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that
becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all -
black Mission College in «School Daze.»