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A FRESH MOMENTUM IN ACTION DRAMAS
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke
SPRAYING THE COLOURS OF LOVE
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
WHEN DANCING DIAMONDS BOND
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
LIMBO, FRIENDSHIP ON HOSTILE SOIL
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
MAXIMALIST CANDOUR
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
MAN DE WATCH GOAT, GOAT DE WATCH MAN
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
SENSUOUS SUPERSTARDOM
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
INTERCULTURAL SOLIDARITY
Writers: Tilly Long, Sarah Hawke, Fikayo Oloruntoba
CHRONICLES OF LOVE, GRIEF, AND TRANSFORMATION
Writer: Tilly Long | Editor: Sarah Hawke
TO THE VICTIMS OF THE SUDANESE REVOLUTION
Writer: Tilly Long | Editor: Sarah Hawke
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Alain Gomis is a Franco-Bissau Guinean-Senegalese director. He was born in 1972 in France, where he grew up. His first two short films, Tourbillons followed by Petite lumière, were selected and received awards at several international festivals. In 2001, his first feature-length film, L’Afrance, won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.
Video and performance artist Ulysses Jenkins is but one of these under-recognized artists, despite his large and potent body of work and his involvement in collaborations with many artists throughout California through the collective of Othervisions Studio, Electronic Cafe International, and other initiatives.
Poets, Fred Moten and Eileen Myles, presented readings in The Royal Geographical Society. Multidisciplinary artist Sondra Perry responded to this context with a moving-image intervention.
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge.
Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood, the first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts.
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture?
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge.
This freewheeling documentary captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades.
Across his works, Kahlil Joseph demonstrates a commitment to black sociality and what liquid blackness has termed an “aesthetics of suspension,” in which two extremes that typically express contradiction are instead held simultaneously, often in tandem with equally suspended temporalities and spatialities.
Sondra Perry (b.1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) constructs multifaceted narratives that explore the imagining, or imaging, of blackness throughout history.