BlackStar Selects
This special program, focusing on altered states, the occult, liminal worlds and liminal beings, features five films: Happy Thanksgiving (dir. ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, 2024); The Flacalta Effect (dir. Rochée Jeffrey, 2024); Enmity Djinn (dir. Mohamed Echkouna, 2024); The Dawn (dir. Alicia Mendy, 2024); To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (dir. Valentin Noujaïm, 2024).
This event is co-sponsored by Africana and Latin American Studies, and Native American Studies at Colgate University.
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Where
Little Hall, Golden Auditorium
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
When
Thursday, March 6
7-9 PM ET
What
Short film block
Film Program
- Happy Thanksgiving (2024)
Directed by ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby
A Native American man takes a Happy Thanksgiving wish from a bank teller so personally, his rage drives him to carry out a bizarre revenge plan.
Duration: 8 min.
The Flacalta Effect (2024)
Directed by Rochée Jeffrey
Keesha and Toya are Black sisters whose house is being infiltrated by the undead. Keesha and Toya couldn’t be more different. Keesha’s hardened to the world because of everything she’s experienced as a Black woman in America and has no desire to fight to escape. Toya, an open-hearted optimist, believes that if they survive this zombie attack, maybe they can live to see a better world. All they have to do is kill a couple of zombies, not murder each other in the process, and maybe they’ll survive. . . . Maybe.
Duration: 8 min.
Enmity Djinn (2024)
Directed by Mohamed Echkouna
Enmity Djinn chronicles the journey of an ancient malevolent spirit from a rural nomadic tribe to a modern city 75 years later. After being summoned through black magic, the Enmity Djinn is tasked to destroy a rival tribe in the desert. He fails when he is faced with the last remaining survivor - an infant - who is not affected by his powers. Decades later, Djinn is summoned again into a strange modern city with a new task. Here, he faces the undaunted matriarch of his new target, who can sense his powers.
Duration: 19 min. - The Dawn (2024)
Directed by Alicia Mendy
When a parasite contaminates all the drinking water of Dakar, pills are created to neutralize it. Alioune, a young man, can no longer afford them and is exposed to the symptoms of the parasite: madness and dementia. As the days go by, he realizes that he has never been so lucid, and he begins a journey of political and spiritual awakening.
Duration: 29 min.
To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024)
Directed by Valentin Noujaïm
Claire (Kayije Kagame), a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper office in La Défense, faces increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, gray offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams of setting the tower ablaze.
Duration: 14 min.