The People Could Fly is a poetic look into the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, KY, from the 1960s to the mid-2000s. Intimate video portraits reveal the ritual of roller skating and how roller rinks emerged as sanctuaries for Black culture. Weaving together archival footage, still photos, recent material, and newsreel footage, the magic its city’s Black community conjured shows an act of resistance in the
face of segregation.