Shot on one cassette of Super 8mm film and edited in-camera in the Straight 8mm style, this short music video for Algia Mae Hinton’s Piedmont blues song “Cook Cornbread for Your Husband“ functions as an anthropological documentation of St. Helena Island in South Carolina— an island that stands as a cultural hub of the Gullah Geechee people.

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As an African-American ethnic group, the Gullah (whose diaspora stretches along the Low Country regions of the coastal South) managed to preserve elements of their collective culture despite the brutality of slavery. Today, the growing development of coastal regions threatens their geographical ties to the land and to culture at large.

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Told in a makeshift chronology, the film serves as a rough documentation of the island and its enduring culture, alluding to its history pre-colonization, pre-emancipation, and within the demands of modernity.