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Toni (Royalty Hightower) confronts the viewer in the opening frame of The Fits (2015). Directed by Anna Rose Holmer. See "Black Cinematic Gesture and the Aesthetics of Contagion" by Rizvana Bradley. (Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories)