A special screening of Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez's TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing at Vidiots in Los Angeles, followed by a conversation with Massiah moderated by Courtney R. Baker.
Please join us for food, drinks, and a live conversation between Seen Issue 009 contributors Maya S. Cade, Jenny Yang, and Darol Olu Kae, moderated by editor-in-chief Heidi Saman.
This film program brings together a collection of works by Indigenous filmmakers whose practices center cultural memory, sovereignty, and creative resistance.
Please join us for food, drinks, and a live conversation between Seen Issue 009 contributors Nicole G. Young and Bedatri Datta Choudhury, moderated by editor-in-chief Heidi Saman.
Our annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the global majority. This year's festival will be in-person in Philadelphia and online around the world.
The Will to Dream: Seen Issue 008 Reading + Conversation
On Saturday, May 24, Seen contributor Imran Siddiquee will do a reading of their new essay, published in issue 008 of the journal, "The Will to Dream: Patriarchy and the limits of our cinematic imagination," followed by a moderated conversation.
Please join us for an intimate conversation between this issue's guest editor, artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, and founding editor Maori Karmael Holmes. They will discuss Hopinka's influences, including some of the films that shaped his point of view
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.
The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.