Screenings
Intertextuality: Performance/Subjectivity in Experimental Shorts
- This is a past program
In dialogue with Hammer Projects: Ja’Tovia Gary, which features THE GIVERNY SUITE, this screening of short films situates Gary’s work in the context of Black women’s experimental films across a 25-year period. By gathering video, photos, sound clips, and printed media, these filmmakers give an account of what gendered blackness feels like in North America and the UK.
Film program
Intro to Cultural Skit-Zo-Frenia, Jamika Ajalon (1993, 10 min.)
Sapphire and the Slave Girl, Leah Gilliam (1995, 20 min.)
Be Sarah, Zoë Charlton (2009, 2 min.)
Imitation, Zoë Charlton (2011, 3 min.)
An Excavation of Us, Shirley Bruno (2017, 10 min.)
Fucked Like a Star, Stefani Saintonge (2018, 8 min.)
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Ja’Tovia Gary (2017, 6 min.)
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