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Fluid Frontiers
Juror Presentation: Ephraim Asili's Diaspora Suite
Screening Room - Michigan Theater
Thu, Mar 22, 2018 1:00 PM
“Asili has concluded a five-part film suite that examines the African diaspora through a series of immeasurable equations: America and abroad (with films shot in Ghana and Ethiopia, as well as Brazil,
Jamaica, and Canada); personal and collective history; the past and the present; imaginations and realities; and image and sound. Abandoning digital video for 16mm, Asili has developed his documentary impulse into something more spontaneous and musical, his eye attuned to the unexpected rhythms afforded by montage.” – Jesse Cumming, Cinema Scope
The fifth and final film in an ongoing series exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African diaspora.
Shot along the Detroit River border region, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad (the Detroit River being a major terminal point), and more modern resistance and liberation movements represented by Dudley Randall’s Detroit-based Broadside Press, as well as the installation, sculptural, and performance works of local Detroit Artists.
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