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AFTER DARK 2021 - watch party + live commentary feat. eat. HIS HOUSE with special guests Isabella Price and Sade’ Sellers
AFTER DARK is an annual program that delves into the creative, spooky, and speculative world of horror and sci-fi storytelling. Witness how African + Black Diasporic filmmakers, writers, artists, and characters are contributing to the cult circuit while flipping the script on these mind-bending genres.
Join us for a series of watch parties with live commentary by special guests on contemporary Black horror featuring HIS HOUSE (2020, USA/UK, 93 mins), Directed by Remi Weekes, with special guests Isabella Price and Sade’ Sellers.
HOW TO WATCH
Open Chrome + download the Scener extension
Log-in to Scener.com or register a new account
Visit Scener.com/blackcinemacltv to join the party via Netflix
For additional help, visit scener.com/faq
Organized and designed by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
#blackcinemacollective #bccafterdark
ABOUT THE FILM + GUEST
HIS HOUSE (2020, USA/UK, 93 mins)
Directed by Remi Weekes
A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.
ISABELLA PRICE
ISABELLA PRICE is a filmmaker, writer, podcaster, host, performer and youtuber from the PNW. She has worked on CUT’s 100 Years of Beauty series, produced a horror film burlesque live show called Nocturnal Emissions, and directed a virtual national run of Mae West’s play SEX in 2020. Currently she works with Langston Seattle, as the Film Programs Manager curating their Fade to Black series, focused on Black filmmakers and the Black image in media and as the Seattle Black Film Festival Programs Manager.
Follow Isabella on Twitter+ IG @Izzyvonghoul
SADE’ SELLERS
SADE’ SELLERS is a screenwriter and producer based in Burbank, California. Originally from Michigan’s capital, Sade’ has been working in the entertainment industry since 2009. In 2017, Sade’ was a finalist for Tv One’s Screenwriting competition for her teleplay, The Replacement. This achievement motivated the network to hire her as a writer for their upcoming movie of the week event, Deadly Dispatch, which premiered on the platform in the summer of 2019. Through that process, Sade’ met casting director Leah Daniels-Butler who was in the midst of staffing her production company, 1oneninety5. Sade’ then rose to the role of Vice President of Content Acquisitions and Development and spent the next year learning the ecosystem of film and television development from pitching to production. Using that experience, and bound at home due to COVID-19, Sade’ made a return to her first love, screenwriting, utilizing her free time to write new content. Currently, Sade’ is practicing social distancing with her beloved dog, Majon, in Burbank. At the same time, she is recording her monthly horror review podcast, Afro Horror, which was recently adapted into a weekly blog series for Final Draft. She enjoys cooking, baking, and catching up on programs such as The Undoing and The Morning Show.
Follow Sade’ on Twitter @IAMSadeSellers @afrohorror + IG @sadesellers @afrohorror
Learn more about Sade’s work at sadesellers.com and afrohorror.com
AFTER DARK 2021 - watch party + live commentary feat. SWEETHEART with special guest Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman
AFTER DARK is an annual program that delves into the creative, spooky, and speculative world of horror and sci-fi storytelling. Witness how African + Black Diasporic filmmakers, writers, artists, and characters are contributing to the cult circuit while flipping the script on these mind-bending genres.
Join us for a series of watch parties with live commentary by special guests on contemporary Black horror featuring SWEETHEART (2019, USA, 82 mins), directed by JD Dillard, with special guest Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman.
HOW TO WATCH
Open Chrome + download the Scener extension
Log-in to Scener.com or register a new account
Visit Scener.com/blackcinemacltv to join the party via Netflix
For additional help, visit scener.com/faq
Organized and designed by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
#blackcinemacollective #bccafterdark
ABOUT THE FILM + GUEST
SWEETHEART (2019, USA, 82 mins)
Directed by JD Dillard
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn't take her long to realize she's completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.
DR. ROBIN R. MEANS COLEMAN
DR. ROBIN R. MEANS COLEMAN is Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. An award-winning scholar, Dr. Coleman’s work focuses on media studies and the cultural politics of Blackness. Dr. Coleman is the author of Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present (2011, Routledge) and African-American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor (2000, Routledge). She is co-author of Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life (2014, Wiley-Blackwell). She is the editor of Say It Loud! African American Audiences, Media, and Identity (2002, Routledge) and co-editor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader (2008, Peter Lang). She is also the author of a number of other academic and popular publications. She has three new books about Black horror soon to be published. Dr. Coleman is featured in, and co-executive produced, the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary film Horror Noire which is based on her book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. The film features a ‘who’s who’ cast, to include: Jordan Peele (Get Out; Us), Tananarive Due (My Soul to Keep), Ashlee Blackwell (graveyardshiftsisters.com), William Crain (Blacula), Rusty Cundieff (Tales from the Hood), Rachel True (The Craft), Ernest Dickerson (The Walking Dead; Bones), Keith David (The Thing), Mark Harris (blackhorrormovies.com) and a host of other horror stars and experts.
Follow Dr. Coleman on Facebook + Twitter @MeansColeman
Learn more about Dr. Coleman’s academic work at bit.ly/3CeKHKV
BETWEEN THE FRAMES: Virtual Screening + Discussion
BETWEEN THE FRAMES is a film program in Redmond that uses visual storytelling to promote and deepen our understanding of different histories, traditions, and cultures.
These films, situated in the Black North American and South Asian contexts, are linked by themes of memory, acceptance, self-love, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. In particular, they explore and disrupt the deep connections between internalized racial biases and colorism within and between Black and South Asian communities.
Rewatch the program on YouTube
This program features:
WHAT’S YOUR BROWN NUMBER? (2015, India, 4:31 mins)
Directed by Vinnie Ann Bose; Produced by Studio EeksaurusKAALA (2019, India, 15:24 mins)
Directed by Tarun Jain; Produced by Nasira Khan
ABOUT THE FILMS + ARTISTS
WHAT’S YOUR BROWN NUMBER? (2015, India, 4:31 mins)
Directed by Vinnie Ann Bose; Produced by Studio Eeksaurus
What's Your Brown Number? is an animated satire on colorism that questions the nuances of idealized beauty based on skin tone in India.
VINNIE ANN BOSE
VINNIE ANN BOSE is an Indian born animator, living and working in France since 2018. She holds a Bachelors in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India and a Masters in Animation film direction from Joined École de la poudrière, Valence, France.
What is your Brown Number? was part of an incubation student project that Vinnie made while studying at NID under the mentorship of Suresh Eriyat of Studio Eeksaurus.
She is currently working on a short film project titled "Sulaimani" and a TV series project for children titled "Mousse & Bichon", as author and director.
KAALA (2019, India, 15:24 mins)
Directed by Tarun Jain; Produced by Nasira Khan
Kaala (Black in Hindi) is a short socio-political film specifically on hate crimes against African nationals that occurred in New Delhi, India in 2016 and 2017.
TARUN JAIN
TARUN JAIN is an acclaimed filmmaker from New Delhi, India. His short film, Amma Meri has screened in over 48 festivals including the Oscar Qualifying Tampere Film Festival, IFFI Goa, MIFF, IDSFFK, and Dharamshala, India.
His latest film Kaala (2019) is based on the racist attacks on the Africans in New Delhi, India. Kaala (2019) had its world premiere at the Oscar Qualifying Cinequest Film and VR Festival in the USA and also played at Rapid Lion Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was screened at the Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF), a first of its kind event that brought together seven well-established South Asian film festivals across North America in 2020.
Moderated discussion led by Dr. Nalini Iyer
DR. NALINI IYER
NALINI IYER is Professor of English at Seattle University and current holder of the Theiline Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair for the Humanities. She teaches postcolonial studies including South Asian and African writing, and courses on postcolonial and transnational feminisms. Her research focuses on three interrelated areas: the hegemony of Anglophone writing in South Asia, South Asian diaspora studies, and Partition Studies. Her publications include the following: Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (co-edited with Bonnie Zare, Rodopi 2009); Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (co-authored with Amy Bhatt, University of Washington Press 2013); and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (co-edited with Amritjit Singh and Rahul K. Gairola, Lexington 2016/Orient Blackswan 2016). She is the Chief Editor of South Asian Review and the first woman to hold that position in the journal’s forty-year history.
This program was organized by Savita Krishnamoorthy
Media design by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
www.blackcinemacollective.org
This project is supported in part by grants from the City of Redmond and 4Culture
BETWEEN THE FRAMES: Outdoor Screening
BETWEEN THE FRAMES is a film program in Redmond that uses visual storytelling to promote and deepen our understanding of different histories, traditions, and cultures.
These films, situated in the Black North American and South Asian contexts, are linked by themes of memory, acceptance, self-love, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. In particular, they explore and disrupt the deep connections between internalized racial biases and colorism within and between Black and South Asian communities.
This program features:
BLACK SOUL (2002, Canada, 9:50 mins)
Directed by Martine Chartrand; Produced by National Film Board, CanadaRECOILED (2019, USA, 8:02 mins)
Directed by Claire Grim; Produced by Shalom Simmons
September 2021 @ the Buoyant Pavilion in Downtown Park, Redmond
Available every Tues, Wed, & Thurs
8 – 10 pm PST
*Films will play on loop
ABOUT THE FILMS + ARTISTS
BLACK SOUL (2002, Canada, 9:50 mins)
Directed by Martine Chartrand; Produced by National Film Board, Canada
Black Soul an animated short, is a lyrical discovery through constantly shifting images into the journeys of Black peoples through Africa and North America. A grandmother’s memory becomes the gateway into stories of defining moments in Black History, a legacy bequeathed to the next generation to never forget, to safeguard, and to pass on.
MARTINE CHARTRAND is a Canadian Haitian filmmaker who directed the award-winning short film T.V Tango (1992) for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She made her second film for NFB entitled Black Soul (2000), an animated short tracing the memory of Black History, which garnered 23 awards, including the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2001. Her third film, MacPherson (2012), inspired by a song from Quebec singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc, won the First Prize and the Best Canadian Short Film Public Award at the Montreal International World Film Festival in 2012.
RECOILED (2019, USA, 8:02 mins)
Directed by Claire Grim; Produced by Shalom Simmons
Recoiled unpacks themes of stereotypes, disrupting hegemonic standards of beauty, and the stigmatization of black hair. It reiterates the importance of valuing one’s authentic self, pride in your culture, and in the positive representation of Black voices.
This animated short is produced by 6 students in the Electronic Arts Program at Missouri State University; Claire Grim (Writer/Director), Shalom Simmons (Writer/Producer), Shelby Corely (Art Direction), Matt Fuller (Technical Direction), Brandon Huddleston (Original Music), and Kersten Schatz (Producer/Screenplay). Recoiled won the Broadcast Education Association’s 2019 Best of Festival award in the Screenwriting category.
This program was organized by Savita Krishnamoorthy
Media design by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
www.blackcinemacollective.org
This project is supported in part by grants from the City of Redmond and 4Culture
#blackcinemacollective #betweentheframes
SHAPESHIFTERS - Special Film Program for “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem” exhibition
Nari Ward. Still from Jaunt, 2011, video (color, sound); 7:52 mins. © Nari Ward. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
The Frye celebrates the final weekend of the landmark exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem with a special screening program of artist videos and short films curated by Berette S Macaulay of Black Cinema Collective. With a view to expanding and “refracting” The Studio Museum in Harlem’s focus on art of the African diaspora, the screening features works by artists both in and beyond the Black Refractions exhibition.
SHAPESHIFTERS artists + program order:
Cloudscape, 2004, Lorna Simpson
Native Sun, 2011, Terence Nance + Samuel “Blitz the Ambassador” Bazawule
Mango Mango, 2015, Tiffany Smith
Autumn, 2016, Deborah Anzinger
Jaunt, 2011, Nari Ward
Boneshaker, 2013, Nuotama Frances Bodomo
for those who mispronounce my name, 2018, Maya Cozier
Sopera de Yemaya: Olokun, 2020, Courtney Desiree Morris
Escaped Lunatic, 2010/11, Steffani Jemison
Crusader, 2006, Nari Ward
Afronauts, 2014, Nuotama Frances Bodomo
“Our program brings together a distinctive gathering of artists and filmmakers from a wide range of cinematic and video art vocabularies which speak to the boundless cultural, historical, mythological, and spiritual refractions of the Black diaspora. Among them are Lorna Simpson, Nari Ward, and Steffani Jemison, three of the artists included in Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, who in this screening present works not on view in the exhibition at the Frye. The newly selected works by each artist, Cloudscape, 2004 (Simpson), Jaunt, 2011 and Crusader, 2006 (Ward), and Escaped Lunatic, 2010/11 (Jemison) anchor the program’s three acts, taking us through loosely-defined chapters devoted to memory/knowledge/play; hybridity + shapeshifting; and imaginary futures im/material. A selection of shorts from multidisciplinary practitioners Deborah Anzinger, Maya Cozier, Courtney Desiree Morris, and Tiffany Smith round out the program, in conversation with longer pieces from filmmakers Nuotama Frances Bodomo and Terence Nance + Samuel “Blitz the Ambassador” Bazawule.
There are multiple worlds of memory and mourning, histories, beliefs, myths, and material cultures, which suggest that loss and the trauma of erasure and ruin can be forces that also bring about invention and renewed forms of thriving liberation. There can be delight in "third-worlding"—coopting and redirecting—whatever is deemed by the status quo as fixed or legitimate, and in so doing, moving beyond the prescribed maps and mistaken territories of the dominant narrative. If we consider memory not only as recordkeeping but as an act of imagination, fragmented identities can shapeshift through speculative ecologies of community, environment, knowledge, land, and language to become whole. The films in this program explore ruin, reclamation, and survivalist methods of existence across multiple spaces of catastrophe and hope, dreaming and invention, and simple acts of playfulness and love. They break free of borders and minimizing categories so we can conjure the mythic and invent our way beyond colonial ruin.”
— Berette S. Macaulay for Black Cinema Collective
SHAPESHIFTERS is curated by Berette S. Macaulay for Black Cinema Collective, and organized on behalf of Frye Art Museum by Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator, and Erin Langner, Exhibitions and Publications Coordinator. The program is presented in partnership with Jazmyn Scott, Program Manager at Langston Seattle. Partner presentation with Murmurations, a Seattle-wide Arts Collaboration.
Support for this program is provided in part by Art Bridges. Additional support is provided by the Frye Foundation and Frye Members.
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem is organized by the American Federation of Arts and The Studio Museum in Harlem. This exhibition is curated by Connie H. Choi, Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem. The presentation at the Frye Art Museum is coordinated by Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator, with David Strand, Associate Curator.
Black Spatial Elegance: Serious Tings
BLACK SPATIAL ELEGANCE: NEW CINEMATIC LANGUAGE OF GLOBAL BLACK MUSIC
“Serious Tings”
Wayne Chen in conversation with Steve "Urchin" Wilson + special guest Maxine Walters
The exciting 3rd act of our 3-part inaugural gathering that recognizes and celebrates Black Music Month in Seattle, foregrounding the influence of Black music through the visual and cinematic legacies of videos, films, art direction + design produced by Black storytellers throughout the diaspora.
Explore the BSE Serious Tings Playlist
Hosted by Henry Art Gallery + Partners to compliment the Gary Simmons: The Engine Room exhibition.
ABOUT GUESTS
► MAXINE WALTERS has worked in film, music and entertainment production, public relations and marketing for nearly 40 years. She is a passionate Jamaican who delights in creative and cultural exchanges with friends and associates in sister islands of the Caribbean and worldwide. One of her earliest projects was co-founding the Reggae Sunsplash concert series in 1978. Maxine has worked on photo campaigns, commercials, video and film productions with Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Branson, Puma, Adidas, and Nike. Her music video production credits include Lorde, Usain Bolt, Damian “Junior Gong” Marley, Lauren Hill, The Fugees, Beenie Man, and Wycleff Jean among others. Maxine has shared her production skills with students as visiting professor at La Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, Cuba; the University of the West Indies, Barbados; and locally in Jamaica at The Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC). Maxine Walters has produced 99% of the international commercials for the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt.
Over the past 30 years she has also collected over 4,000 Jamaican Dancehall hand-painted and stenciled street signs, sometimes scaling walls, gullies and trees islandwide to retrieve worn or discarded pieces. Seeing their artistic merit, Maxine promoted and exhibited them locally and internationally, in New York, Berlin, Montreal, Los Angeles, New Orleans, during Art Basel Miami, and the Havana Biennale. She published Serious Things A Go Happen (2016), a book offering an “unofficial history of Jamaican dance hall music told through its graphic design”with a forward from author Marlon James, and essay contributions from Vivian Goldman and others. The book was critically received with features in the New Yorker, Vogue online and a documentary on the Arté channel. Book proceeds were given to the Kingston hospice named for her father, Consie Walters.
In 2017, the Government of Jamaica awarded her the Order of Distinction for promoting Jamaican culture internationally. She lives in rural Jamaica and sojourns in the capital city, Kingston.
► WAYNE CHRISTOPHER CHEN is Chairman of CVM Television, Jamaica’s Southern Regional Health Authority, and Petrojam. He is President of the Caribbean Employers Confederation, which represents 18 national employers’ organizations, and as a member of CARICOM’s Human Resource Development Commission. He was Jamaica Observer’s 1998 Business Leader of the Year and is co-author of “Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music” (1998 Temple University Press) and Executive Producer of Toots and the Maytals’s Grammy-nominated album “Ska Father” (1999).
► STEVE "URCHIN" WILSON started his music journey working at Bob Marley's legendary Tuff Gong record label as a marketing executive. He spent 10 years cross training in every imaginable area in the entertainment industry, and most notably as studio manager for the GeeJam Studios where he oversaw studio sessions for The Roots, Common, The Gorillaz, No Doubt & The Jungle Brothers amongst others. In 2001, Steve was signed on to help pilot what became the dizzying career of multi-platinum Grammy winner Sean Paul. As a reggae ambassador, Steve guided concert tours in over 100 countries, while also managing independent musicians locally. He also organized bringing EDM & house music to his home base of Kingston, Jamaica via his Brand New Machine (BNM) party series, platforming super DJs like Diplo, Bob Sinclair, CongoRock & Toddla T to spin on the island for the first time. He has gone on to export the BNM party concept to Montego Bay, Cayman, London & New York City. Steve recently published “Look Down : sh*t you might have missed" a coffee table book made up of photos taken on his many travels coupled with quotes from his Father and Grandfathers."
#BlackSpatialElegance
Presented by Black Cinema Collective in partnership with Wa Na Wari, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Langston Seattle, and Henry Art Gallery
Organized by Berette S Macaulay
Media design by Chile Dulce
Tech Production by Ian Siporin
Black Spatial Elegance: Sight and Sound
Black Spatial Elegance: Sight and Sound
Guest artist Rell Be Free in conversation with Berette S Macaulay, Jazmyn Scott, + Inye Wokoma
Discussing a 40 year journey of music film/video history, discussing directors, art direction, cinematography styles + craft, and influences from the MTV evolution to independent revolutions
on YouTube and beyond.
Re-watch the Stream on:
Enjoy the Sight + Sound Playlist
ABOUT GUESTS
RELL BE FREE is a multifaceted creative, Underground Educator, and active community organizer from the South End of Seattle. Rell has contributed energy towards collectives that lift up young folx, the arts & Black culture, as well as Abolition, community defense and much more. As a musician Rell currently has 7 projects available on streaming platforms, the most recent being “SOLEDAD.”
For more of Rell Be Free's work, visit rellbefree.art
BERETTE S MACAULAY MA is a Washington based interdisciplinary photo-based artist, independent curator, and writer born in Sierra Leone, W. Africa, and raised in Jamaica and the UK. She is a transcultural roving spirit deeply drawn to migration + displacement histories of colonial peoples. She is the founder and lead organizer of Black Cinema Collective, serves as the Art Liaison Program Manager at Henry Art Gallery, and was recently named the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at On the Boards.
For more of Berette's work, visit berettemacaulay.com
JAZMYN SCOTT is the Program Manager of LANGSTON; Seattle’s hub for Black arts and culture, co-founder of 50 Next: Seattle Hip-Hop Worldwide, a digital “time capsule” highlighting Seattle and Northwest Hip-Hop, and co-curator of The Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit at the Museum of History & Industry; which won the 2016 American Association for State & Local History (AASLH) Leadership in History award.
For more of Jazmyn's work, visit langstonseattle.org
INYE WOKOMA is a journalist, filmmaker and visual artist who explores the intersections of our political economies and shared histories through the lens of personal narratives rooted in the neighborhood he grew up in, the Central District. He is the co-founder of Wa Na Wari, the center for Black art located in one of his family’s Central District homes. Inye’s creative work as an artist and filmmaker interrogates the meaning of land, identity, politics, and justice as a way of better understanding the past in order to shape transformative possibilities for the future.
BLACK SPATIAL ELEGANCE: NEW CINEMATIC LANGUAGE OF GLOBAL BLACK MUSIC Program series.
An inaugural gathering that recognizes and celebrates Black Music Month in Seattle, foregrounding influence of Black music through the visual and cinematic legacies of videos, films, art direction + design produced by Black storytellers throughout the diaspora.
Presented by Black Cinema Collective in partnership with Wa Na Wari, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Langston Seattle, and Henry Art Gallery.
Organized by Berette S Macaulay
Media design by Chile Dulce
An Evolutionary History of Visual Art + Music
BLACK SPATIAL ELEGANCE: NEW CINEMATIC LANGUAGE OF GLOBAL BLACK MUSIC is an inaugural gathering that recognizes and celebrates Black Music Month in Seattle, where we foreground the influence of Black music through the visual and cinematic legacies of videos, films, art direction + design produced by Black storytellers throughout the diaspora.
Program Series Introduction
“An Evolutionary History of Visual Art + Music”
Presented by Cassidy Correia + Devan Kirk
Hosted by BCC + Partners
Thurs, June 24 @ 7:00 pm PST
TONIGHT!!!
Streaming LIVE here on FB
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Watch the program via Henry Art Gallery’s YouTube.
ABOUT GUESTS
► CASSIDY CORREIA (she/her) is a first-generation student the University of Washington, Seattle. She is majoring in International Studies with a focus in International Human Rights and minoring in Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian studies. With an indigenous Brazilian background, her current studies focus on the human rights of indigenous communities. Cassidy was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and has a deep connection to Seattle music scene.
► DEVAN KIRK is a recent graduate from the University of Washington, where they just received their degree in Art and Anthropology. They were born and raised in Seattle, Washington and have been an active part of the University of Washington community, especially as a former track & field Student-Athlete. Devan also makes art in their spare time, typically using photography as their medium. He is planning to move to the Netherlands to study Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in August!
For more of Kirk's work, visit kirkdevan.myportfolio.com
Presented by Black Cinema Collective in partnership with Wa Na Wari, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Langston Seattle, and Henry Art Gallery
Organized by Berette S Macaulay
Media design by Chile Dulce
HOME STORIES OF be/LONGING: A special screening + communing of Black art
A special screening + communing of Black art films featuring:
Who We Be (2017) by Adama Delphine Fawundu
Go-Rilla Means War (2017) by Crystal Z Campbell
Royaltee (2018) + Looking Glass v. Self (2017) Kamari Bright
How To Return To The Earth When It Turned It's Back On You (2019) by Mia Imani
The works of our guest artists invite us to question what we know, and further what we remember, as thriving survivors offering a/new home to one another. Artist Panel to follow screening.
Presented by Black Cinema Collective and Wa Na Wari
Organized by Berette S Macaulay
About the Program
The imaginative survivance
of settler colonial causation,
of generational displacement,
of occupation,
of reclamation,
seems a perennial r(e)volutionary act of co-creation throughout the Black diaspora.
Through culture-making, dream-scaping, linguistic coding, and embodied rituals of kinship that defy erasure across time, space, and circumstance, there are life-affirming rootings that remove the question of be/longing, and instead – perform it.
While we course-correct histories, how do we sustain our ancestral memories with witnessing and wonderment to cultivate new futures?
When considering the role of caretakers and storytellers, how do we nourish indigenous and diasporic kinfolk, and the earth?
How do we re-figure our co-existent “right to rights”, and our right to belong?
The works of our guest artists invite us to question what we know, and further what we remember, as thriving survivors offering a/new home to one another.
About the Artists & Films
Who We Be, 2017
“Who We Be is an experimental video with words, sounds and visuals. It is a collaboration between me and James Benjamin Lewis aka Biggie Flighter (featured performer) as we think about the social and political implications of colonialism and slavery on language. James Benjamin Lewis is a musician and activist based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, W. Africa.”
ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU is a photo-based visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Ms. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. This book features over 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe. Her most recent works investigate indigenous ontologies while imagining new ways of being in the world. Her interests included decolonization, memory, and interrogating histories. Fawundu uses photography, video, sculpture and printmaking to create new transnational identities as she explores Afrofuturist ideas.
http://delphinefawudu.com
Go-Rilla Means War, 2017
With 35mm film salvaged from a now demolished black civil rights theater in Brooklyn, Go-Rilla Means War is a filmic relic of gentrification–––a parable weaving intersections of development,
cultural preservation, and erasure.
Originally commissioned by SculptureCenter, as part of curator Alexis Wilksinon's In Practice Exhibition
CRYSTAL Z CAMPBELL is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of African American, Filipino, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets— fragments of information known by many but untold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks's “immortal” cell line, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Sonic, material, and archival traces of the witness informs their work in film, performance, installation, sound, painting, and texts.
Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, MAAA, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, Franklin Furnace; Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Exhibitions include the Drawing Center (US), Nest (NL), ICA-Philadelphia (US), REDCAT (US), Artissima (IT), Studio Museum of Harlem (US), Project Row Houses (US), and SculptureCenter (US), amongst others. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic. Campbell is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com.
Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma.
www. crystalzcampbell.com
Royaltee, 2018
A poetic short film highlighting the hidden nobility of even the persecuted parts of Black culture.
Looking Glass v. Self, 2017
Inspired by the increased publicity of police brutality and Black death through social media channels, Looking Glass v. Self highlights the influence of negative media imagery on perception, identity formation, and mental health.
KAMARI BRIGHT is an award-winning emerging creative whose videopoems have screened at the 8th International Video Poetry Festival of Thuringia, Tacoma Film Festival, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Festival International du Film PanAfricain de Cannes, Seattle Black Film Festival, and the 2020 Film & Videopoetry Symposium. She is currently working on a videopoem connecting personal trauma and land stewardship/pollution.
kamaribright.com
How To Return To The Earth When It Turned It's Back On You, 2019
“They forced their minds to desert their bodies and their striving spirits sought to rise like frail whirlwinds from the hard red clay.” - Alice Walker
How To Return To The Earth When It Turned It's Back On You is not a recreation of a dream but an invitation to extend its messages. Filmed in a forest close to where I use to incubate my dreams (Königsheide, Berlin), How To Return is a documentation of an experimental ritual that explores the following questions:
How can we connect with our ancestors through the soil?
How can we heal the wounds that are left in the soil?
How can we retrieve stored memories in soil?
Special Thanks to Shannon Sea, Sound Artist
In collaboration with, and filmed by interdisciplinary artist János Brückner.
MIA IMANI is an international interdisciplinary artivist (art + activist) and arts writer based in Berlin, Germany. She creates and curates liminal spaces that invite Black and Brown communities to heal individual and communal trauma through conscious (day-dreaming, visualization) and subconscious (lucid, REM sleep) dreaming. These works aim to center the agency of marginalized communities and use dreams as a portal to manifest alternative past(s), present(s), and future(s). Mia’s creative and collaborative work has lived in the Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Art Museum Lab, Savvy Contemporary, and is expanding into the digital and other interdisciplinary spaces. Her written work lives both digitally and in print within publications Cultured Magazine, Contemporary And, Daddy Magazine, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Vice, and more.
She received her B.A. in Media Communications Studies from the University of Washington and is completing her Master’s in North American Culture and Literature studies at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
About the Organizer
BERETTE S MACAULAY is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer born in Sierra Leone, W. Africa, raised in Jamaica and the UK, and now living in the US. She is a transcultural roving spirit deeply drawn to migration + displacement histories of colonial peoples. She is the founder of Black Cinema Collective and co-organizes programs with Mateó B. Ochoa and Savita Krishnamoorthy. She also serves as the Art Liaison Program Manager at Henry Art Gallery and was recently named the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at On the Boards.
Black Queer Story Month, Part I
Three Dollar Bill Cinema launches new monthly programming! Expanding their festival reach and providing intentional representation of the intersections of queerness through film. ✨🌈
The first program launch is :
A Shorts Program featuring films representing Black queer lives.
Films they will be screening:
2 Dollars
Gang 888
Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Touch & Agree
Aje Ijo: Immortal
Buck
15% of proceeds made from this month of programming will be donated to WA Black Trans Force, a project of Lavender Rights - an organization providing life saving and affirming resources to Black trans people in the Seattle-Tacoma area.
Event co-presented by Black Cinema Collective and Seattle Black Film Festival (a program of Langston Seattle)!
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