From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I am Elvis Mitchell. I am in Los Angeles.

My guest, the writer-director, star creator of the

dizzyingly title and oversimplification of her beauty. Terrence, thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. First of all, let me say one of the things I love about the movie

is the title, the most spectacular misnomer in the history of black culture. Where did the title come from?

It's a lot in the movie, actually, and I wanted to have some way of showing that this is another

movie than the short film. So I thought change the title would be the best way to do that.

And it was a line movie that I was particularly attracted to because I thought it was funny in its

inaccuracy and explaining what the movie was. But I thought it was also kind of like, you know,

it earnestly spoke to the fact that the film is an attempt to show you how beautiful this woman is and my relationship with her was, but it is only a movie. And in it being a movie, it's incapable of actually showing what our relationship was and the beauty of it and how nuanced that experience was for me. The title of the short was,

How Would You Feel, which in his way is kind of all-encompassing and vague as an oversimplification of her beauty.

It is, you're right.

Maybe I'm just attracted to that, like, you know, vagaries in naming.

They both kind of sound like album titles by The Last Poets or Gil Scott Heron.

And I kind of like that about them.

They feel, because the movie itself to me feels like almost like a series of needle drops,

you know, into kind of conscious and subconscious.

I think that definitely the idea of DJing, specifically in how the music was chosen,

but also how I'm trying to go back and forth between the voices and perspectives,

was definitely something I was referencing, you know?

And I even referred to what I was doing editing-wise, just dropping it on the one.

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