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Like Toronto, NY and other film festivals, Sundance in the Plague Year was virtual. It reduced its scope and crammed 73 films into six days. Nothing unspooled, it all streamed digitally, with 28 satellite drive-in sites scattered around the country. Here in the East it was freezing, and we got the snow Park City didn’t. Our film critic Harlan Jacobson sees black and white in color at Sundance this year. HJ:. Sundance this year took the measure of Race – where we’ve been and where we are, maybe where we’re headed only by inference. Sundance 21 was Black History Month condensed to a concentrated week . One after another, across the Sundance spectrum of American dramatic films and documentaries, the stories focused on Black characters, historical or fictional, first and foremost coming to terms with identity and with Color. Fred Thompson, Alvin Ailey, Rita Moreno, Romeo and Juliet on Instagram, Black Baltimore under surveillance cameras, prisoners in the Ivory Coast. The Black films that