COMMON - BLACK AMERICA AGAIN
Directed by Andy Hines
Cinematography by Jeff Powers
Edited by Jason Eisener
Color Grade by Quinn Alvarez @ Apache
Creative Director Kwasi Fordjour
Produced by Nathan Scherrer @ FREENJOY
Styling by Timothy Chernyaev / Armina Mussa / Olivia Hines
AJA MONET - UNHURT
"Art is the try..."
Cinematography: Emmanuel Afolabi
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Music: Ryan Taubert--Kings
Don't Ask Where I'm From, Ask Where I'm A Local
When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. "How can I come from a country?" she asks. "How can a human being come from a concept?"
SADE - NO ORDINARY LOVE
"Women’s bodies are experienced in shared ways and women’s bodies are scrutinized in shared ways. I was really interested in exploring this sharing of social experiences, both positive and negative. Wearing my own hair natural and giving birth to my daughter spurred me to reflect on the ways in which her experiences with her hair may or may not parallel mine. That brought my photo work to contextualize hair from the standpoint of a black girl/woman. So much is packed into hair, which makes it a viable site for resistance. It’s regulated along so many gazes. Whether a woman is choosing to grow hair on her underarms and legs to reject patriarchal standards or she is loc’ing her hair to reject Eurocentric standards, there’s agency in connecting our own body to our protest."
The Ghetto Tarot Project
The Ghetto Tarot is a photographic interpretation of the traditional tarot deck in the ghetto. The scenes are inspired by the Rider Waite Tarot deck (originally designed in 1909 by artist Pamela Colman Smith) and are replicated together with award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists called Atis Rezistans (Resistant Artists) in the Haitian slums using only material found or created locally. On several cards the artist's art was used, that includes symbolism from the Vodou religion to embody the important meaning of the cards original symbols.
The name of the Ghetto Tarot is inspired by the "Ghetto Biennale", which is an invitation by Atis Rezistans to visiting Western and non-Western artists to come to Haiti and create art in collaboration with them to produce a show at the end. Atis Rezistans use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste.
EQUALS are James Low and Ade Omotayo from east London
Director: Louis Ellison
Production company: Maverick Film
Director of Photography: Doug Walsh
Producer: Olivier Derriet-Fisher
Editor: Pete Thompson at Maverick Film
Colourist: Mark Meadows at Smoke and Mirrors
Makeup: Keely Reichardt
Makeup assistant: Elizabeth Gandolfo
Camera assistant/focus puller: Liam White
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