Quiet As Kept

Directed By: Charles Burnett
Release Date: 2007
Running Time: 6 minutes

The latest short film by Charles Barnett, Quiet As Kept is the story of a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Reviews

"Filmmaker Charles Burnett takes the helm for this sobering documentary short concerning a former New Orleans family who has been relocated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and enters into a seriocomic discussion concerning their possible evening plans."
- Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

"Quiet As Kept"

"Quiet as kept" could be said a few different ways; "quiet as it's kept", "quiet is kept".

The meaning is secrecy, to keep quiet, not volunteering or distributing information on certain relations. It's often an expression used in afairs where sensitive knowledge must be kept secret in order to avoid repraisals from other groups within the same society, culture, or subculture.

Usage: It was business as usual, quiet as kept.

From UrbanDictionary.com