{"id":2338,"date":"2026-10-16T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:09:54","slug":"black-and-blur-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/black-and-blur-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK AND BLUR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2025\u20132026, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Angola, Portugal, Nigeria, Turtle Island, Germany, 102 min.
In English and various languages with English subtitles | Format: Digital and 35mm<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

November 10<\/strong> | 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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MINOR DEMONS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Kearra Amaya Gopee, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, 23 min., In English \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>State surveillance and archives haunt an artist exploring their father\u2019s past in Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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REMAINS OF M’PALA.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Lubanzadyo Mpemba, Angola, Portugal, 14 min., In Portuguese with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
An interrogation of colonial records and missing institutional memories in Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INDIGO: IN DEY GO<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2025, dir. Oreoluwa Akinyode, USA, Nigeria, 10 min., In English \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>An experimental choreopoem mapping out an earthly descent and ancestral memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ZA MWEZI<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Matazi Weathers, Turtle Island, USA, 17 min., In English \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>Celestial desire and lunar orbit intersect in an abstract hypnotic ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DEAR MILWAUKEE<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Joshua Borg, USA, 6 min., In English \/ Format: Digital
<\/em>Milwaukee youth combine performance and visual art to craft an ode to their city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BURNING LIES<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Raviva Nsiama, Germany, 10 min., In German, English, Kikongo, and Lingala with English subtitles \/ Format: 35mm<\/em>
Poetic multilingual verse traces a journey of self-discovery across cultural borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YOU LISTENED TO SPIRIT, LOOK WHERE IT GOT YOU<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Derryl DeAngelo Terrell, USA, 13 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
An experimental reflection on spiritual guidance, intuition, and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INTRODUCTION TO THE BLACK HAPTIC (MUMBET’S REVENGE)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Lola Ayisha Ogbara, USA, 9 min., English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
Visual collage and theory honor Elizabeth Freeman, the woman who sued for her freedom in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SHOWTIMES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:30 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ORDER TICKETS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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