BlackStar Film Festival

Shorts: Phosphene

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6 films in package
Process
Process is a short film by Christian Padron featuring music from Samora Pinderhughes. It is a meditation on grief and loss, dedicated to all those we have lost during these unpredictable and tumultuous times. This film is for those in mourning and all those supporting each other.
In Place of Monuments
With somatic knowledge, Naima Ramos-Chapman sculpts a kinetic monument on the same rooftop in the name of healing and freedom-- where she was arrested at gunpoint as a teen in 2005. May this be a balm.
Between Starshine & Clay
This ritual story remembers an evening on MLK Day ’19, where Lead to Life, a collective that transforms guns into the otherwise, to commemorate Black folks and land impacted by the wake of violence, transforms guns into the constellations above Oscar Grant as they appeared 10 years prior, on the evening he was murdered.
Closed captions available
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
A search for solidarity in the sounds and colors of a spontaneous movement in Delhi led by Muslim women, an Iqbal Bano song, the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, and images of B.R. Ambedkar-a radical anti-caste Dalit intellectual-all revolving around a letter addressed to a distant relative.
San Diego
This film is a reaction to colonialism & quarantine. It's made from multiple perspectives and experiences, pieced together. There are various qualities of footage: lo-fi camcorders, iPhone, archival images and screen recordings. The content is based on a question of how to keep our communities safe.
Q&A: Phosphene
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Swirling, spiraling, luminous creative interventions.


In partnership with Common Field

Nominated for Best Experimental Film


This ritual story remembers an evening on MLK Day ’19, where Lead to Life, a collective that transforms guns into the otherwise, to commemorate Black folks and land impacted by the wake of violence, transforms guns into the constellations above Oscar Grant as they appeared 10 years prior, on the evening he was murdered.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Director
    brontë velez & Mer Aldao
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