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Skin. Sound. Synth.

(Short Films - Live Stream)

A science fiction and futurism flavored exploration of culture and identity through skin, sound, and the synthesis of the two in motion. This is a celebration of people of color—black and brown—telling their stories and expressing themselves with visual and sonic experimentation.

All Ticket Sales were donated to Detroit Impact Center.

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Space Is The Place—Excerpt
Aug 21
1974 | Sun Ra | USA | 2m
Space Is The Place—Excerpt
1974 | Sun Ra | USA | 2m

Excerpt from the introduction of Space is the Place (1974), starring Sun Ra.

1974 | Sun Ra | USA | 2m
Two Parts Black
Aug 21
2018 | Cleon Arrey | USA | 5m
Two Parts Black
2018 | Cleon Arrey | USA | 5m

An imperfect attempt to depict the two worlds I navigate; the world my family has created for me and the world that exists beyond my mother's door. It's an exploration and celebration of black bodies in an inverted-world.

2018 | Cleon Arrey | USA | 5m
The Holloway Picture
Aug 21
2019 | Greyson Horst | NYC, USA | 8m
The Holloway Picture
2019 | Greyson Horst | NYC, USA | 8m

In a future where movies are made by A.I., one woman sets out to disrupt the system of simulations and resurrect the role of the artist.

2019 | Greyson Horst | NYC, USA | 8m
Mirror In Mind
Aug 21
2014 | Seunghee Kim | South Korea | 2m
Mirror In Mind
2014 | Seunghee Kim | South Korea | 2m

A woman looks into her mind, chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes herself.

2014 | Seunghee Kim | South Korea | 2m
Minerva’s Lillies
Aug 21
2016 | Amirah Tajdin | Africa / Middle East / USA | 4m
Minerva’s Lillies
2016 | Amirah Tajdin | Africa / Middle East / USA | 4m

A meditation on femininity and the magic of being a woman, a girl, a daughter. Minerva's Lilies centres on two sisters, Leah and Nayomi aged, 9 and 10 as they go through the motions of 'being girls'. The visual meditation forms the experience of not only the girls' little world of magic but that of the viewer and their mother who is carefully perched around their dreamlike atmosphere.

2016 | Amirah Tajdin | Africa / Middle East / USA | 4m
I Don’t Protest I Just Dance In My Shadow
Aug 21
2017 | Jessica Ashman | UK | 5m
I Don’t Protest I Just Dance In My Shadow
2017 | Jessica Ashman | UK | 5m

A short visual essay film by artist and animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space.

2017 | Jessica Ashman | UK | 5m
Kalewa
Aug 21
2018 | Mitchel Viernes | USA | 16m
Kalewa
2018 | Mitchel Viernes | USA | 16m

In the future, a Hawaiian astronaut makes the next great leap for his planet, his family, and himself. Tonight is his last chance.

2018 | Mitchel Viernes | USA | 16m
How To Steal a Canoe
Aug 21
2016 | Amanda Strong | USA | 4m
How To Steal a Canoe
2016 | Amanda Strong | USA | 4m

The story of a young Nishnaabeg woman and an elder Nishnaabeg man rescuing a canoe from a museum and returning it to the lake it was meant to be with. On a deeper level, we witness the act of stealing back the precious parts of us, that were always ours in the first place as Indigenous people

2016 | Amanda Strong | USA | 4m
Black To Techno
Aug 21
2019 | Jenn Nkiru | USA | 20m
Black To Techno
2019 | Jenn Nkiru | USA | 20m

Black To Techno delves into the origins of the genre in Detroit, drawing parallels between the machine-like production lines of the city’s manufacturing heritage and the roots of black music in drum patterns and percussive variation.

2019 | Jenn Nkiru | USA | 20m
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