The Luminary and The Center for Afrofuturist Studies Presents: Ordinary Survival - The Evidence of Persistence
The Luminary and The Center for Afrofuturist Studies Presents: Ordinary Survival - The Evidence of Persistence
Screening
In-Person
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
6:30-8pm CST
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Film Festival - Ordinary Survival: The Evidence of Persistance
Join us Wednesday, November 1st, 6:30-8PM for Ordinary Survival, a hybrid film festival featuring work by over 20 exceptional filmmakers around themes and images of survival which ground futurism in everyday triumphs and struggles. All films can be viewed online, and festival-goers can also attend in-person screenings in St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Iowa City.
Proceeds from the festival support the Center for Afrofuturist Studies’ artist residencies and programming.
About the Evidence of Persistence - Theorizing blackness in a day where white supremacy is the determining order leads to a bleak extreme. Eradication appears as a serious threat given our world’s antipathy for black presence. It is easy to find films that tacitly accept the roles prescribed for black people in the exercise of this order. These are not those films. Films here recognize that being, unapologetically, is among the greatest violations blackness may furnish against the order of white supremacy.
The Evidence of Persistence features films by
Che Applewhaite
Gil Alves
Aryel René Jackson & Michael J. Love
doriana diaz
Jon-Carlos Evans