Inside ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: Daryl Davis, Race & America with Dir. Matt Ornstein

ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: DARYL DAVIS, RACE & AMERICA follows musician Daryl Davis as he travels around the US meeting white supremacists on a quest to answer “how can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” Filmmaker Matt Ornstein discusses learning of Daryl’s unique journey and how Daryl’s relationships with Klan’s members have affected them. Ornstein also details the relationship between segregation and integration in relationship to the civil rights movement today in this SXSW edition of BYOD hosted by Ondi Timoner.

Guest Bio

ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: Daryl Davis, Race & America - Daryl Davis is an accomplished musician who has played all over the world with various legends. He also has an unusual hobby. Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the KKK, many of whom have never met a black person. When some of these people decide to leave the Klan, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person. Follow us on a trip across the landscape of contemporary America as we sit in on interviews between Daryl and KKK and neo-Nazi leaders, academics, and civil rights activists. Watch as he attempts to answer his lifelong question “how can you hate me when you don’t even know me?”

Matt Ornstein directed Atlantis in 2012 starring Jason Ritter and the space shuttle Atlantis. It appeared in over 20 film festivals around the world. Matt has directed music videos for artists including Radiohead, Daft Punk, Penguin Prison, Ashtar Command, and Har Mar Superstar. He attended Bard College where he was recipient of a student Emmy.