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Friday, October 10, 2025
Arthouse at Blue Star | 134 Blue Star
All screenings are free; however seating is limited. RSVP here.
6:00 PM | Raza Cósmica: Excursions in Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism expresses notions of Black identity, agency, and freedom through art, creative works, and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life. This vibrant selection of shorts by Afro-Latino and Black directors explores movement, family, and hope, and includes films from Ireland and the United States.
Hands Performance
Rashaad Newsome, 2023, USA, 5 min
A visually stunning exploration of Black queer movement and technology, Hands Performance fuses vogue fem, ASL, and motion capture to transform poetry into a dynamic dataset—embodied by Being the Digital Griot, a non-binary AI—set against a speculative future and an electrifying score. Check out the trailer here. Watch an interview where director Rashaad Newsome reflects on how the film platforms the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, while considering the limits or language and how AI informs his practice here.
Why the Sun & Moon Live in the Sky
Aisha Bolaji, 2024, Ireland, 13 minutes
Small town teens Diana and Sol are graduating. Diana once dreaded this day, fearing a mundane future, but now has a plan for adventure among the stars with her best friend Sol. When doubt starts to set in, they have to decide whether to pursue their dream or remain in their familiar world. Check out the film's backstory, shared by director Aisha Bolaji here.
Jammal Lemy, 2024, USA, 17 min
Craig Smith can’t get rid of the red backpack carrying all of his past traumas until he comes across a one-of-a-kind pawn shop that can help. Finally given the opportunity to get rid it forever, he has to now decide whether to let go of what means most to him: the memory of his mom.
Harlem Fragments
Cameron Tyler Carr, 2024, USA, 18 min
An Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy. Based on true events. Watch the trailer here.
Bitter Leaf
Omar S. Kamara, 2024, USA, 18 min
In a not-so-distant future, a burgeoning Twitch streamer struggles to manage her ambition and the real life costs of her success.
Granada
Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz, 2024, USA, 14 min
A woman suffering silently decides to wage war on the miracle in her backyard.
8:00 PM | Raza Cósmica: barrunto
barrunto
Emilia Beatriz, 2024, United Kingdom/Puerto Rico, 70 min
Spanish, English, and Scottish Gaelic with English subtitles
“Barrunto” is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to a bodily unrest, an omen or a forecast sensed via signals present in the environment (such as when rain is forecast through aches and pains or when ants emerge anticipating an earthquake). “Barrunto” is a way of thinking with surface and subconscious, underfoot and underground. barrunto is a speculative fiction that takes place in a future of the past, in a present ruptured now. Its far-reaching network of affinities spans from Puerto Rico to Scotland, from the land to the bottom of the sea, and all the way to planet Uranus.
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Todos los futuros
Bárbara Cerro, 2024, France, Argentina, 11 min
Terrestrial life reached a distant planet after a long odyssey through space, via microorganisms in meteorites that can survive the journey. On the planet Somnum, night is eternal. Humans carry with them their dream of reproducing their past life, but their luggage also includes ancestral fears and absurd rules. The sky is falling in.
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