Directed by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides • 2023 • United States
FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS tracks the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Centered on Jay and the Reality Poets, largely a group of gun-violence survivors, the film captures their harrowing experiences as COVID-19 spreads through their facility and public officials deny the suffering behind its walls. Using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, this group of disabled Black and brown artists documents the truth, refusing to be abused, confined, or erased.
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The Passion of Remembrance
Directed by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien • 1986 • United Kingdom
Starring Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles, Carlton ChanceOne of the major works of the revolutionary Sankofa Film and Video Collective, this radically innovative film explores issues of Black British culture, gender, and sexuali...
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Faya dayi
Directed by Jessica Beshir • 2021 • Ethiopia, United States, Qatar
A sublime work of trance-state cinema, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic immersion in the world of rural Ethiopia, a place where one commodity—khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once p...
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The Changing Same
Directed by Cauleen Smith • 2001 • United States
In this experimental hybrid between science fiction and noir, Cauleen Smith explores Black alienation and outsiderhood via the story of two aliens stationed on Earth searching for kinship and a sense of purpose.
