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Afrofuturism

I Snuck off the Slave Ship

18m

Directed by Lonnie Holley and Cyrus Moussavi • 2019 • United States
Starring Lonnie Holley, Theotis Taylor

Visionary folk artist Lonnie Holley choreographs an ecstatic Afrofuturist tone poem to his own music in an assemblage of his encounters with the slave ship “America” and a testament to imagination as resistance.

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