Directed by Keisha Rae Witherspoon • 2019 • United States
Starring Koko Zauditu-Selassie, Kherby Jean, Jesus Mitchell
In this stylistically dazzling, deeply moving, and unclassifiable short, a film crew follows three grieving participants in Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model RIP T-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
Up Next in Radical Dreams, Underground Sounds: 13 Films Presented by Dweller
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Exhibitionist—Purpose Maker Mix
Directed by Jeff Mills • 2004 • United States
Witness the artist at work as legendary Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills creates a live DJ mix with astonishing, hypnotic dexterity.
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Shakedown
Directed by Leilah Weinraub • 2018 • United States
Charting the eight-year run of Shakedown, a peripatetic black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, director Leilah Weinraub attempts “to portray the before and after of a utopic moment.” Weinraub presents a world unto itself, shaped by the desires...
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Songs for Earth & Folk
Directed by Cauleen Smith • 2013 • United States
Made in 2013, this short by Cauleen Smith is composed entirely of 16 mm and Super 8 found footage and is structured like a blues song, with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack created by Chicago-based band the Eternals.
