Reflecting on family legacies. Thank you to our screening partners: <a href="http://philadelphiaprintworks.com/" target="_blank">Philadelphia Printworks</a>

Based on a voice note received 500 years after the “start of slavery,” nobody’s word seeks to complicate notions of ancestors, inheritance and implication across time and space. Within the film, Camara Taylor digitizes and disintegrates the family archive in order to reframe accounts, destabilize claims, and inhabit the spaces between fact and fiction.

nobody's word

Breaking down the colonial tradition of piñatas, this personal film probes into a loss of faith while retracing a family history.

Piñata Prayers

Tiger highlights an Indigenous award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and elder, Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company.

Tiger

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