The film screening will be followed by a Q&A between BLM Nogojiwanong and Director Phillip Pike.
Presented by BLM Nogojiwanong and the ReFrame Film Festival, Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of the transformative power of community and the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A between BLM Nogojiwanong and Director Phillip Pike.
Listening to Angela, a Black lesbian feminist who is rousing a crowd, we understand that, no, this particular revolution wasn’t televised. Rather, from out of the shadows, it was hugged, chanted, marched and danced into existence.
Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community. Capturing first-person accounts across a span of four decades, this feature-length documentary is more than a previously untold oral history, more than a reclamation of unsung people and events.
Our Dance of Revolution is a human-scale reckoning of how audacious individuals find themselves by finding others, and how they muster the courage, tenacity, and creativity to prevail against the forces of marginalization.
- Year2019
- Runtime102 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereApril 29, 2019
- DirectorPhilip Pike
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A between BLM Nogojiwanong and Director Phillip Pike.
Presented by BLM Nogojiwanong and the ReFrame Film Festival, Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of the transformative power of community and the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A between BLM Nogojiwanong and Director Phillip Pike.
Listening to Angela, a Black lesbian feminist who is rousing a crowd, we understand that, no, this particular revolution wasn’t televised. Rather, from out of the shadows, it was hugged, chanted, marched and danced into existence.
Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community. Capturing first-person accounts across a span of four decades, this feature-length documentary is more than a previously untold oral history, more than a reclamation of unsung people and events.
Our Dance of Revolution is a human-scale reckoning of how audacious individuals find themselves by finding others, and how they muster the courage, tenacity, and creativity to prevail against the forces of marginalization.
- Year2019
- Runtime102 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereApril 29, 2019
- DirectorPhilip Pike