LIBERATED ZONES: BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION
A video project about using the Black imagination as intervention.
Guided Meditation: dana washington
Soundtrack: Darktwaine, SANA
Black Media Archive Excerpts:
Sun-Ra
Amiri Baraka James Baldwin
Sampled Media:
Coronus the Terminator by Flying Lotus, m.A.A.d by Kendrick Lamar and Kahlil Joseph, Boneshake by Frances Bodomo, Untitled bitmap image, Weeksville Heritage Center by Mireille Liong, MMC7 Opening with Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake and Xscape, Wakanda Handshake by Wakanda Forever, Man Protest in Times Square by Interwebsvideovault, Where Are All the African Gods by Abbey Lincoln by Rodney Passe
Guided Meditation: dana washington
Soundtrack: Darktwaine, SANA
Black Media Archive Excerpts:
Sun-Ra
Amiri Baraka James Baldwin
Sampled Media:
Coronus the Terminator by Flying Lotus, m.A.A.d by Kendrick Lamar and Kahlil Joseph, Boneshake by Frances Bodomo, Untitled bitmap image, Weeksville Heritage Center by Mireille Liong, MMC7 Opening with Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake and Xscape, Wakanda Handshake by Wakanda Forever, Man Protest in Times Square by Interwebsvideovault, Where Are All the African Gods by Abbey Lincoln by Rodney Passe
PRESS
Brown, Jheanelle and Darol Olu Kae. “Notes on a Radical Elsewhere, Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories,” 2018.
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PROGRAMS
University of Southern California for “Cinematheque 108: Open Letter, Recent Work from Southern California Filmmakers”
“Familiar Unknown: Mysticism in the Present Future” at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles for Los Angeles Filmforum
AWARDS
2019: DTLA Film Festival
︎ Best Experimental Short
︎ Best Social Justice Short