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2025–2026, France (Guadeloupe), Réunion, USA, 90 min.
In English and French with English subtitles I Format: Digital
November 7 & 9 | SPACE IS THE PLACE celebrates the possibilities of Black imagination through science fiction, supernatural horror, surrealism, visionary storytelling, and speculative world-building. Whether confronting dystopian futures, haunted presents, impossible technologies, living landscapes, or alternate realities, these films use speculative form to examine contemporary questions of identity, migration, memory, power, and freedom. Moving between Afrofuturism, psychological horror, ecological imagination, experimental narrative, and genre cinema, the program embraces the fantastic, uncanny, and unknown as tools for reimagining reality and expanding the possibilities of Black life.
PROGRAM
THE CHANT OF THE WATERWAY
2025, dir. Célia Marie Flavie Berby Maillot, France, Réunion, 15 min., In French and Creolé with English subtitles / Format: Digital
Returning home to her dying grandfather, a woman encounters island spirits tied to colonial history.
KANSAS
2026, dir. Leah Deeray, USA, 16 min, In English / Format: Digital
An ex-patient plunges into an underground conspiracy while searching for quick cash.
WHAT WE CARRY
2026, dir. Karl-Mary Akre, USA, 15 min., In English and French with English subtitles / Format: Digital
An Ivorian couple stranded in the rural American South fight off an unseen predator.
SYZYGY
2026, dirs. J. Michael Hayes, Nekeshia Hayes, USA, 15 min., In English / Format: Digital
An Afro-surrealist traveler spans eras to witness how Black love fuels revolution.
MONDAY
2026, dir. Lisa Giles, USA, 7 min., In English / Format: Digital
Strangers collide, and scientists race against the clock as Earth faces final oxygen depletion.
THE SCOREKEEPER
2025, dir. Eve Wright, USA, 11 min., In English / Format: Digital
A supernatural interloper stalks a young woman on the eve of her first date.
GLASS BRICKS
2026, Simone Holland, USA, 11 min., In English / Format: Digital
A trained dancer gives an intimate look into the art and history of drag performance.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu
SHOWTIMES
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:30 A.M. & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:15 P.M.
