AFROCENTRIC FEATURETTES

SHORTS PROGRAM

FREE IN-PERSON
+ ONLINE SCREENING

IN-PERSON SCREENING:
APRIL 4, 2022 • 7 PM
@ Halifax Central Library

Total runtime: 82 mins

VIEWABLE ONLINE IN ATLANTIC CANADA
FOR 48 HOURS FOLLOWING IN-PERSON SCREENING

These short films were made by Black Canadian filmmakers whose artistry personifies unique ethos and experiences in the pantheon of Canadian cinema. The cinematography and aesthetics of these shorts underlay that the concept of catharsis is profoundly less ideal than subjective. Themes explored span militant wounds (Mariner), the inertia of interpersonality when one faces a love lost (In Your Palm); matrilineal hubris and heartbreak (Fanmi); reclaiming power amidst the contempt of kin (The Deliberate Death of My Father); Blackness as a corporal effigy and exemplar (Black Bodies); and the systemic anti-Blackness that characterizes penal systems (Defund). —Fallen Matthews

PROGRAM LINEUP

Mariner (dir. Thyrone Tommy)

In Your Palm (dir. Malcom Odd)

Fanmi (dir. Carmine Pierre-Dufour + Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers)

The Deliberate Death of My Father (dir. Rose Katché)

Black Bodies (dir. Kelly Fyffe-Marshall)

Defund (dir. Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah + Araya Mengesha)