Curated by Darol Olu Kae

Cinema is an unfinished project. Every single description of the medium that has been given to us should be considered a working definition – a placeholder that must be perpetually interrogated, unpacked, expanded, and undermined. This program presents a dynamic constellation of short films that are united across various genres and conventions by their rigorous specificity to their material. Each film emanates with its own feeling, guiding vision, artistic preoccupations and unique audiovisual qualities. This program will serve as an entry point for us to begin to approach and discuss questions of form, source material, the creative process, logistical realities, while simultaneously exploring and sharing creative strategies that filmmakers find invaluable to their practice. After the screening, there will be a conversation with curator Darol Olu Kae and filmmakers D’Wayne LeBlanc and Jazmin Garcia.

Trokas Duras (2025)
By Jazmin Garcia
17 mins

Journeying through the interior landscapes of a Jornalero’s dreams, his waking reality in Los Angeles, and what it looks like when a group of people relegated to serving others labors for their own elevation of body and spirit.

Practice, Practice, Practice (2024)
By Kevin Jerome Everson
10 mins

Practice, Practice, Practice is what Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Now, Here Me Good (2025)
By D’Wayne LeBlanc
15 mins

Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home, a listlessness returns to him. Only the next morning, while playing his trumpet, does he find his place in the stillness of the soft early light.

Creatures of Light (2024)
By Sylvie Weber
12 mins

Valeria shares a unique bond with her animal friends, finding solace and understanding amidst their company. Like the fireflies, she radiates as a guiding light for her family during their darkest hours, traversing the realms of life and death.

Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (2024)
By Dominic Yarabe
18 mins

A father recounts. A village reenacts. A daughter documents. 

An Ivorian father and his American-born daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child.

With the help of the children living in his village today, the three generations make a film together and create a mythical tapestry of entwining timelines, nightmares, and memories.

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