The Black Radical Imagination is an ongoing film showcase programmed by Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae, originally organized by curators Erin Christovale and Amir George in 2012. Their programs explore a wide variety of themes, from Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism to Reclamation of the Black Body and The Black Fantastic. Black Radical Imagination programs have screened at national and international institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Studio Museum in Harlem, articule (Montréal), Museum of Fine Art (Boston), BlackStar Film Festival, and Afropunk Festival (Brooklyn, NY). The notion of the Black Radical Imagination stemmed from discussions around the boundaries and limitations historically given to people of color. In the film industry, these restrictions are often digested and kept to propel a vicious cycle of negative identification. Black Radical Imagination invokes a futurist aesthetic where artists identify themselves and reclaim their own unique stories, delving into the worlds of video art, experimental film, and narrative shorts. They also focus on access to new media like animation and graphic design, highlighting how these processes enhance our storytelling and the visual artistic practices in our communities. Each artist contributes their own vision of a free, changing world in a postmodern society through focused observations that explore the state of Black culture. Post-screening conversations with artists, organizers, and audiences are set in place in order to shift the way in which our identity is defined on screen and how these stories affect our ever-changing global culture. Jheanelle? ?Brown? is a film curator, producer, and arts educator based in Los Angeles. Her curatorial practice is committed to honoring, expanding, and empowering Blackness in visual and filmic media. Her specific interests are oriented around experimental and non-fiction film and video, the relationship between musicality and cinema, and political film and media. She is a graduate of USC’s Cinema & Media Studies MA program. Darol? ?Olu? ?Kae? ?is a filmmaker, film curator, and doctoral student from and based in Los Angeles. He currently attends USC’s Cinema & Media Studies PhD program, where his research explores Black visual and expressive culture in relation to the institutionalization of film education and training in the American university system and beyond. His artistic, academic, and curatorial interests merge together around the complexities and possibilities of a Black film aesthetic.