We welcome students, faculty, and staff to join us for this Afrofuturism-themed outdoor film screening of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place, immediately followed by Janelle Monáe's visual album, Dirty Computer (Emotion Picture).
Arthur Jafa is an artist, director, editor, and award-winning cinematographer. His renowned work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016) is a compilation of found footage set to Kanye West’s gospel-inspired hip-hop track “Ultralight Beam.” The meticulously edited seven-minute montage surveys African American identity and black experience through a vast spectrum of imagery, including well-known pictures from the civil rights era, recent scenes of police brutality, and iconic clips of extraordinary athleticism. For The White Album, Jafa shifts his lens to white experience, combining imagery from a wide array of sources, from music videos to confessionals posted to YouTube, to produce a trenchant examination of race relations in the United States. Jafa received the 2019 Golden Lion award for best artist in the Venice Biennale for The White Album.
Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future is a two-part series of contemporary short films and animation by Indigenous artists residing on Turtle Island. The stories in this series ponder Native time and Indigenous history in relation to land, settler colonialism, and futurity. While some of these films could be categorized as “science […]
“This ethereal experimental documentary by Sky Hopinka is an essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life.” - New York Times maɬni (pronounced moth-nee) - towards the ocean, towards the shore is one of the most significant recent ventures in Native North American filmmaking, recognized by the MacArthur Foundation as a vital work that speaks to ongoing […]
