excavate
archive
film
let failure annihilate me
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let failure annihilate me ✦
experimental weaving
Experimental weaver of the unshared stories of what I consider to be my people—immigrants, caretakers, sex workers,barkeepers,navy officers, healers, and so much more—highlighting their resilience, survival, harm and - of course legacy.
I am constantly question my place within the diaspora, wrestles with belonging - using present and past audio footage & documents as a means to challenge historical erasure, honor collective memory, and explore the complexities of identity, survival, and hope amidst the struggles of the past and present - and even the future.
In search of permanence & legacy
Storytelling experiments on the inconvenience of community
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PROJECT:The inconvenience of community making
WHAT I COVER: VIDEO ESSAY, COMMUNITY, STORYTELLING
DESCRIPTION: A series I made informed by the work I do in community and life I live through the method of video essays
archivism in film making
PROJECT: Proof of Life short film
WHAT I COVER: CONCEPTS, PHOTO EDITING, CLICK ENHANCEMENT
Filmmaker yordanose samson crafts an experimental documentary that weaves together the unshared stories of her ancestors—immigrants, caretakers, sex workers,barkeepers,navy officers, healers, and so much more—highlighting their resilience, survival, and legacy.
PROJECT: Camera & Memory: an Intervention into the personal & family archive
WHAT I COVER: family intervention, critical fabulation, responsibility
An intimate workshop on documentary storytelling and personal archiving. A glimpse into my collaborator Serena & my in-progress film and to inspire folks to begin their own family or community archive.
UPCOMING PROJECT: Archiving Memory
WHAT I COVER: family intervention, critical fabulation, practice of archives
This workshop intends to create a bridge from participants’ personal archive to archival theory to forming narratives that have been made intentionally and unintentionally absent.
The sessions will primarily center Saidiya Hartman's teachings of critical fabulation as a de-colonial method of intervention to the personal archive.
PROJECT: Uniformity, Experimentation & the importance of Failure
WHAT I COVER: CONCEPTS, ANTI DISCIPLINE,CREATION
A series I make informed by my reflections around creation, experimentation and the importance of not pigeonholing yourself
Let failure annihilate me
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Let failure annihilate me ✦
