A series of experiments and prayer offerings by Black women filmmakers. Thank you to our screening partners: <a href="https://siftmedia215.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SIFTMedia 215 Collective</a>, <a href="https://newnegressfilmsociety.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New Negress Film Society</a>

This trancelike experimental film captures a starry night sky over rural North Florida. A recording of “Florida Storm,” a 1928 hymn written by Judge Jackson in response to the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 — a text that has informed Allison Janae Hamilton’s work for years — plays on a loop underneath various celestial scenes made from time-lapse astrophotography. The film hearkens to the history of North Florida’s turpentine industry — a brutal system of labor where workers began the workday before sunrise and toiled until well after sunset — and contemplates how their only moments of rest or leisure must have taken place under the cover of this starry expanse.

Celestine (Florida Storm)

A visual praise poem honoring the mother of the sweet waters, Oshun.

Oríkì Oshun

Twenty Three is a visual interpretation of loss of childhood inspired by Alice in Wonderland and the IU song “Twenty-Three.” It follows the story of Yellow (symbolizing childhood and past) with eerie, cultural, playful and nostalgic elements.

Twenty Three

Rashida Bumbray’s short film Untitled (How High the Moon) reimagines her mother’s childhood visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the lens of magical realism.

Untitled (How High the Moon)

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