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A Director's Choice shorts package curated by filmmaker Christopher Harris

TOWARDS THE COLONIES
 (2016, Canada/Haiti) Dir. Miryam Charles, 5 minutes

When a young girl is found off the Venezuelan coast, a medical examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated.

TRAVESSIA
 (2017, Brazil) Dir. Safira Moreira, 5 minutes

In an intimate and poetic visual essay, Travessia searches for photographic records of black families. While exploring personal histories, the film gradually adopts a critical stance regarding the stigmatization and near absence of portrayals of black people. Finally affecting us with a tender visual counter-narrative of what remained unseen.

AURORA
 (2018, Cuba) Dir. Everlane Moraes, 15 minutes

On the stage of a destroyed theater, we saw a play in which Elizabeth, Mercedes and Crisalida, three black women at different stages of life, relive everything they suffered from the interpretation of their own conflicts in the form of inner monologues.

NEGRUM3 (BLACKN3SS)
 (2018, Brazil) Dir. Diego Paulino, 22 minutes

NEGRUM3 proposes a dip in the march of black LGBT people in São Paulo. A film about blackness, queerness and spacial aspirations of diaspora' children.

MANY THOUSANDS GONE
 (2014, Brazil, USA) Dir. Ephraim Asili, 8 minutes

Filmed on location in Salvador, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem, NY (an international stronghold of the African Diaspora), Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use as an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score.

CONSPIRACY
 (2022, USA) Dirs. Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 24 minutes

Conspiracy is a collaboration between artists Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich titled for the 1975 album by Jeanne Lee and inspired by the practice of burning the Vaval effigy in French Caribbean carnival. The film has been shown at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022), MoMA’s Doc Fortnight festival (2023), and the Berlinale International Film Festival (2023)..

Featured still from NEGRUM3.