Two audiovisual works to reach beyond the solitary confinement to otherness.
Program by Furtado Melville, art director, photographer, curator, and writer based in the Netherlands.
When I Get Home by Solange 2019, USA, 41”, English
Black molasses, blackberry the masses. In WHEN I GET HOME director Solange Knowles weaves, choreographs, and sculpts visually through Texas and Houston where she rooted as a youngster. Black skin, black braids, black waves, black baes, black things. Black faith that can't be washed away. Or as Solange put it in conversation with The Guardian, "It’s one thing to think with your spirit, it’s another to actually live it through your body. Blackness will never go away. It’s who I am. It’s what I know. I’ll always be a black woman, and I’ll always create work from this black woman’s body.”
Black Mother by Khalik Allah 2018, USA, 77”, English
Part film, part baptism, in BLACK MOTHER director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.
AWL_036 BLACK MOTHER
wednesday 18 December 2019
doors open: 20.15
start program: 20.30
pre sale tickets: WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam