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Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical

Leaving August 31 • 10m

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2020 • United States

Filmmaker Rhea Storr offers an ecstatic immersion into Junkanoo—a form of carnival celebrated in the Bahamas and a living expression of Afrofuturism as resistance.

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