{"id":2482,"date":"2026-10-16T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:09:08","slug":"space-is-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/space-is-the-place\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACE IS THE PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM<\/strong><\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2025\u20132026, France (Guadeloupe), R\u00e9union, USA, 90 min.
In English and French with English subtitles I Format: Digital<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

November 7 & 9<\/strong> | 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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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THE CHANT OF THE WATERWAY<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2025, dir. C\u00e9lia Marie Flavie Berby Maillot, France, R\u00e9union, 15 min., In French and Creol\u00e9 with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
Returning home to her dying grandfather, a woman encounters island spirits tied to colonial history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KANSAS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Leah Deeray, USA, 16 min, In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
An ex-patient plunges into an underground conspiracy while searching for quick cash.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHAT WE CARRY<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Karl-Mary Akre, USA, 15 min., In English and French with English subtitles \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
An Ivorian couple stranded in the rural American South fight off an unseen predator.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYZYGY<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dirs. J. Michael Hayes, Nekeshia Hayes, USA, 15 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
An Afro-surrealist traveler spans eras to witness how Black love fuels revolution.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MONDAY<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, dir. Lisa Giles, USA, 7 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
Strangers collide, and scientists race against the clock as Earth faces final oxygen depletion.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE SCOREKEEPER<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2025, dir. Eve Wright, USA, 11 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
A supernatural interloper stalks a young woman on the eve of her first date.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GLASS BRICKS<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

2026, Simone Holland, USA, 11 min., In English \/ Format: Digital<\/em>
A trained dancer gives an intimate look into the art and history of drag performance.<\/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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:30 A.M. & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:15 P.M.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:30 A.M. & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:15 P.M. | SPACE IS THE PLACE celebrates the possibilities of Black imagination through science fiction, supernatural horror, surrealism, visionary storytelling, and speculative world-building. […]<\/p>\n

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