‘What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?’ Review: A Quiet Look at a Community in Crisis

“Black and white is abstract; color is not,” photographer Joel Sternfeld told Art in America in 2012. “Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.” Perhaps this insight inspired director Roberto Minervini to make What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, which depicts the “strange world” of the American South …