Black Radical Imagination Film Series Screening Event In Chicago 2/27

The films, which will be screened at next week’s event are:

– The Baptist by Lewis Vaughn

A fallen spirit seeks redemption after a life of compliance and misguidance. After being forcedinto an afterlife state, he attempts to navigate through a vivid forest while a mysterious creature taunts him.

– Black Magic at the White House by Jeanette Elhers

In this video, Ehlers is performing a voudon dance at the Marienborg—a residence with a strong connection to the triangular trade that today plays an important role in Denmark as the official residence of the country’s prime minister.

– Bliss by Jabari Zuberi

Bliss is a surrealist sci-fi short about a man, Kahel, and his dependence on a technological drug that reaches out to his subconscious mind. It is a visually driven, surreal short drama focused around the technological drug, the effects it has on Kahel, and the glimpse interactions of relationships formed because of his new-found addiction.

– Black Bullets by Jeanette Elhers

In a poetic and mesmerizing manner Black Bullets pays tribute to the act of revolt. Black Bullets was filmed on The Citadel, a mountaintop fortress in Haiti built by king Henri Christophe after the Revolution. The fortress itself has become a sign of liberty and an icon of Haiti.

– Get the Bones from 88 Jones Because She Also Eats Meat by Lauren Kelley

An aerial view of the disposable nature of intimate relationships. This short, stop motion animation tale scrutinizes the gestures that occur between an invisible librarian and a capricious peacock—both are bookworms. Throughout this anti love story, the familiar predator and prey narrative elements are liquefied when what seems solid to a smitten protagonist cracks and falls apart.

– Moonrising by Sanford Biggers & Terence Nance

The nose knows. We’ve been overdosing on pop perfume, a heady arrangement of melody and bounce – coddled by brightly colored choruses and whims of the Top Forty. Sometimes we Earthlings are in need of a piece of meat caught between the wisdom teeth, just to suck it loose for a savory taste of the unpretty. When tripping the light fantastic gives way to a slew footed stomp – jut the butt and knees bent. Chicken wing and Cheshire grin, a twisted tree through a piano and the quilt-that-never-got-washed; plus a top hat with more than rabbits inside. Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. And ninjas is crazy.

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