in partnership with Maysles Documentary Center

Drawing on a wide range of archival material, these filmmakers attempt to cohere questions of Black identity that have been obscured, suppressed, or erased by white supremacy and other dominative forces.

Revealing a tension between what’s been captured and, more tellingly, what’s been excluded, these films move seamlessly between personal and political—between family albums, home movies, text correspondences, official documents, news clips, historical footage, and advertisements; they render the archive as a site of both presence and absence

watch INSTANT ANCESTRY 
Nov. 13th through Nov. 26th
featuring


“Meditation on Migration” by Vonnie Quest

“Movie Tote” by Ephraim Asili

“All That You Can’t Leave Behind” by Ufuoma Essi 

“I’ll Finish When I Can” by Cat Jones

“King of Sanwi” by Akosua Adoma Owusu

“Halimuhfack” by Christopher Harris

“Dancing In the Absence of Pain” by Terence Price II

And RSVP to join us for the November 17th Q&A with select filmmakers

See full program description HERE

EXTRA SPECIAL:  Don’t miss our special one-night only opening night presentation of The Otolith Group’s In The Year Of The Quiet Sun on Friday, November 13th at 7pm - tix available HERE