| BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM |
2025–2026, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Angola, Portugal, Nigeria, Turtle Island, Germany, 102 min.
In English and various languages with English subtitles | Format: Digital and 35mm
November 10 | BLACK AND BLUR brings together artists who approach cinema as a site of inquiry, ritual, performance, archive, and experimentation. Working across essay film, choreography, archival practice, handmade processes, sound, poetry, abstraction, and installation aesthetics, these filmmakers challenge dominant cinematic forms while expanding the visual and philosophical language of Black moving-image culture. The works invite audiences to linger with sensation, embodiment, memory, fragmentation, materiality, and performance, affirming experimental cinema as an essential space for Black artistic innovation, intellectual inquiry, and radical imagination.
PROGRAM
MINOR DEMONS
2026, dir. Kearra Amaya Gopee, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, 23 min., In English / Format: Digital
State surveillance and archives haunt an artist exploring their father’s past in Miami.
REMAINS OF M’PALA.
2026, dir. Lubanzadyo Mpemba, Angola, Portugal, 14 min., In Portuguese with English subtitles / Format: Digital
An interrogation of colonial records and missing institutional memories in Lisbon.
INDIGO: IN DEY GO
2025, dir. Oreoluwa Akinyode, USA, Nigeria, 10 min., In English / Format: Digital
An experimental choreopoem mapping out an earthly descent and ancestral memory.
ZA MWEZI
2026, dir. Matazi Weathers, Turtle Island, USA, 17 min., In English / Format: Digital
Celestial desire and lunar orbit intersect in an abstract hypnotic ritual.
DEAR MILWAUKEE
2026, dir. Joshua Borg, USA, 6 min., In English / Format: Digital
Milwaukee youth combine performance and visual art to craft an ode to their city.
BURNING LIES
2026, dir. Raviva Nsiama, Germany, 10 min., In German, English, Kikongo, and Lingala with English subtitles / Format: 35mm
Poetic multilingual verse traces a journey of self-discovery across cultural borders.
YOU LISTENED TO SPIRIT, LOOK WHERE IT GOT YOU
2026, dir. Derryl DeAngelo Terrell, USA, 13 min., In English / Format: Digital
An experimental reflection on spiritual guidance, intuition, and resilience.
INTRODUCTION TO THE BLACK HAPTIC (MUMBET’S REVENGE)
2026, dir. Lola Ayisha Ogbara, USA, 9 min., English / Format: Digital
Visual collage and theory honor Elizabeth Freeman, the woman who sued for her freedom in Massachusetts.
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
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:30 P.M.
