Directed by Little Egypt Collective • 2024 • United States
In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist gathers sonic ephemera as he revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, Cairo, a town famous for confluences and collisions: between North and South; the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers; and Black liberation and white supremacy.
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Life on the CAPS: Parts 1&2
Directed by Meriem Bennani • 2018–2021 • Morocco
Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona a...
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Promised Lands
Directed by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa • 2018 • Uganda, Austria
PROMISED LANDS is a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on (among other things) art, fact, fiction, memory, rights to land, place, and displacement that marks the culmination of a substantial body of work by the late artist Emma Wolukau-W...
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As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in t...
Directed by Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour • 2022 • United Kingdom, Denmark
AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning, and inherited trauma, performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and accompanied by arc...
