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The Treatment

Dime Davis: ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dime Davis: ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.6

Welcome to the Treatment.

0:15.8

Again, the Home Edition.

0:16.7

I'm Elvis Mitchell, your host.

0:19.5

What to say about my guest?

0:21.4

Well, probably one of the best ways to describe her work is to quote the subject of her short,

0:27.9

While, Wild West, and his beautiful rant, Mark Prattford.

0:31.0

At one point, he says, taking humble stuff and demanding and have access.

0:35.3

And I think that pretty much describes her style as a director.

0:38.7

You may know her work from series such as, well, a Black Lady sketch show,

0:44.2

which she shuddered another glass ceiling.

0:47.3

My guest is director, Dime Davis, who directed all the episodes of this show and has done many other shows, too.

0:52.4

First of all, thank you so much for doing this.

0:54.4

Thank you so much. That was literally the best intro I've ever had in my life.

0:58.1

Again, we got to get you some more intro. We really have to do something about this.

1:04.2

But I was just thinking, in that short, the way Mark is talking, and what's so interesting to me about you as a director is you find a way to take the style of the material and blend it into what you're doing.

1:18.8

He's kind of a collageist on the grand scale.

1:21.8

And the visual style, both the editing and compositionally, you basically use collage as your kind of, you're almost

1:29.3

your, your, your, your, your metier in that, don't you? Definitely. I was so inspired, as I

1:34.5

try to be by any subject, right, but I was so inspired by Mark and his work specifically. And I

1:40.7

didn't know how else to really approach that. I let, I let his work in the way he works with his hands and the outcome of that really kind of like

1:49.9

inspire what the piece became.

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