COLLECTIVELY: NEW NEGRESS FILM SOCIETY
A screening of short films from the New Negress Film Society, “a collective of Black women and non-binary filmmakers who create community, spaces, and films that reimagine cultural productions that have traditionally exploited our communities”. Post-screening discussion by New Negress Film Society filmmakers Faren Humes, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Stefani Saintonge, and Yvonne Michelle Shirley. Moderated by Mia Mask (Professor of Film, Vassar).
195 Lewis, Episode 1 (2017, 15 mins, Director: Chanelle Aponte Pearson). 195 Lewis is a dramatic comedy series about a group of friends navigating the realities of being, black, queer, and polyamorous in Brooklyn, NY.
Fucked Like a Star (2018, 8 mins, Director: Stefani Saintonge). A poetic meditation on women’s work and the dreamlife of ants set to the words of Toni Morrison.
Miasia: The Nature of Experience (2017, 30 mins, Director: Yvonne Michelle Shirley). Brooklyn teen, Miasia Clark, is just a few weeks shy of presenting at the first ever Black Girl Movement National Conference. As the event approaches, we watch her prepare with her activist group, Girls for Gender Equity. She guides us through her everyday worlds, wrestling with the personal, the political, and the fight to self-determine.
Liberty (2018, 16 mins, Director: Faren Humes). Loggy and Alex’s friendship in Miami’s redeveloping Liberty Square is threatened when Loggy learns that Alex is being relocated to another community.
Co-sponsors: World Records; NYU Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture
