BlackStar Film Festival

Shorts: Observer Effect

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Affecting by bearing witness.


Presented by Scattergood Foundation and WORLD Channel

A kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence. An archive constantly haunted by its possible collapse.


Featuring the voices of science journalist Sonia Shah, poet and literary scholar Anjuli Raza Kolb, medical anthropologist Christos Lynteris, epidemiologist Keiji Fukuda, economist William A. Darity Jr., and historians Nayan Shah, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nancy Tomes.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    26 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Philadelphia
  • Director
    Mariam Ghani