Film
Shorts Program 1: Intercepted
Virtual
Tickets: $10; $7.50; $5
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Films available to stream in the US only
Where can activation and alliances emerge from crisis? How can we envision communal relations as an antidote for healing? Incorporating notions of Black family preservation, accessibility, and feminist collectivity, these stories look at points of connection that prevail amid legacies of state-sanctioned family separation.
Post-screening Q&A with Sasha Wortzel (director, This is an Address), Malika Zouhali-Worrall (director, Video Visit), Ingrid Raphaël (director, They Won’t Call It Murder), Melissa Gira Grant (director, They Won’t Call It Murder), and Ash Goh Hua (director, I'm Free Now, You Are Free).
This event includes closed captioning.
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Dir. Sasha Wortzel | 2020, 18min
In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, Stonewall veteran and trans activist Sylvia Rivera takes up residency on the Hudson River piers with a group of HIV-positive New Yorkers, as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.
Dir. Malika Zouhali-Worrall | 2021, 21min
Each week, scores of people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to see their incarcerated loved ones via a free video call. This film tells the story of two mothers, their sons, and the librarians who negotiate daily to keep the families connected.
Dir. Ash Goh Hua | 2020, 15min
When Mike Africa, Jr., was born in prison, he spent just three days with his mother Debbie Africa, a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9, before prison guards wrenched him away. They spent the next 40 years struggling for freedom and for each other. This film offers a reflection on their reunion and a meditation on Black family preservation as resistance against state violence.
Dirs. Ingrid Raphaël & Melissa Gira Grant | 2021, 20min
For more than 20 years, Columbus police have killed dozens of people in the city—many young, mostly Black—yet no officer has been charged with murder. In their wake, a group of women, bound by grief at losing their sons, brothers, and sisters, demand recognition for their loss, offering a searing indictment of a system that has failed them. Together, these families challenge the city’s long legacy of withholding answers and ignoring calls for accountability to confront what feels like an impossible question: How do you demand justice from a system that has stolen the lives of children?
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Gathering cinematic experiments from collages to archival tributes, this dynamic shorts program offers meditations on migration, loss, reconciliation, and the circular nature of time.
A hardworking nurse chases the American Dream in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood to support her family back home—until she eventually reaches her limit.
In this art-thriller debut from New York filmmaker Erin Vassilopoulos, a woman on the run returns to her hometown and reconnects with her estranged twin sister, catapulting both into grave danger.