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10 films in package
Moving Meditation
As a youth growing up in Washington D.C., Eric Johnson found a place of belonging within the skateboarding community, but his identity as a black skateboarder put him into a circumstance that almost cost him his life.
Truth and Reconciliation
69 year-old Oakland activist and filmmaker Lis Cox, documents four years of political and racial unrest during the Trump years — drawing connections to political activism in the 1970s, and her own family’s history growing up in Birmingham in the 1950s.
Yello
In this colorful and moving animated documentary, a woman takes us through her emotional process after a racist encounter at the airport, offering an honest look at fear and connection in an era marked by uncertainty.
Blackness is Everything
Blackness is Everything is an experimental/performative short film that celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in The Bay Area.
Four Days at the National Preservation Centre
Four Days at the National Preservation Centre (2020) is a symphonic short documentary about the mechanics of one country’s efforts to conserve it’s archival heritage.
Confluence
CONFLUENCE is a meditation in documentary form filmed during last season’s PHASE series, channeling reflections on identity and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
For the Sake of Old Times
Should 2020 be forgotten?
Legacy
Legacy is a short documentary that provides an intimate look into the life of an artist whose work has had a significant impact on society.
reimagining the city, as our own
Through the creative examination of 'hostile design,' this video imagines public space as attuned to the needs and uses of marginally housed and houseless SF residents.
Program 4 See Me Q&A
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Program 4: See Me - A triumphant look as brave souls standing against racism and proudly proclaiming, "I AM HERE, SEE ME".


This program plays live at the Roxie Theater June 6, 430p: https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sf-docfest-2021

Should 2020 be forgotten?


As always, the first moments of the upcoming new year will be spent singing “Auld Lang Syne,” which opens by asking how one should respond to memories of the past: to remember or erase?


Folks will soon gather to celebrate, many in surgical masks, eager to leave this year behind with a song whose melody is known more than its meaning. But then what? Where does the collective trauma of 2020 go, despite the optimism that better days are magically ahead?


It’s in this historic moment of reckoning with the past that we measure the weight of our journey together. And in Birmingham, Alabama, a place that dismantled its Confederate monument this summer, a group of Black community singers reimagine “Auld Lang Syne.” The traditional Scottish poem, usually associated with booze and beads, is paired with archival imagery from the year and recorded in a church that refused to seat any black visitors during the city’s Civil Rights Movement.


Now, in a strange New Year’s season of quiet refrain, the song honors a time of progress and struggle that deserves to not be forgotten any time soon.


To preserve these memories with a cup of kindness.

  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Tyler Jones