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Film #1: Rraine Hanson’s Surrealistic Exploration of the Femmunity inspired by Yoruba Folklore
Rraine Hanson’s Surrealistic Exploration of the Femmunity inspired by Yoruba Folklore.
A young Jamaican girl discovers the origins of her community, a collective of human trafficking victims who found refuge in near future Kingston through divine intervention.
(medium: digital, 16mm, animation)
Director: Rraine Hanson is a Jamaica raised poet, designer, and filmmaker who works primarily in the art department with a goal of creating productive representations of people of color.
Film #2: curation is care. (unfinished) by Ajay Ram
‘curation is care. (unfinished)’ is a discussion Ajay Ram had with his mom on her relationship with cinema as both a child of Harlem in the 1950s, and a public school teacher of the South Bronx in the 1970s.
Ajay Ram is a non binary filmmaker and musician from The Bronx, NY. They’re also the co-founder and lead programmer of Upside Film Festival, a nomadic microcinema based in Harlem. As a kid, Ajay dreamed of being a theme park designer, and that chaotic imagination is what they’ve carried into their art. Inspired by Kathleen Collins, John Carpenter, Missy Elliott, and Nora Ephron, Ajay aspires to create cinema that explores both the gooey textures of the unknown and the tender interiority of Blackness. Film as a quantum gumbo. Storytelling as a vessel for their aunties’ memoirs.