FILMS
Upcoming Films
Light Work UVP | Everson Museum Plaza
September 10 – October 31, 2020
Thursday – Saturday
Dusk to 11:00pm
To open the 2020-21 season at Urban Video Project (UVP), Light Work is pleased to present filmmaker Ephraim Asili’s short film Fluid Frontiers. Fluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in the series entitled The Diaspora Suite, exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. This will be the first exhibition using UVP’s new, state-of-the-art projection system. Shot along the Detroit River, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation, exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit/Windsor region, and were shot without rehearsal.
Screening + Q&A with the filmmaker
Thursday, October 15 | 6:30–8:30pm
Streaming Online
Filmmaker Ephraim Asili will join UVP to present a screening of The Diaspora Suite, a revelatory and moving cycle of five short films made around the world that collapses time and space to reveal the hidden resonances that connect the black American experience to the greater African diaspora.
The screening will be accompanied by a moderated Q&A with the filmmaker via Light Work’s website on Thursday, October 15. This event will be remote, and is free and open to the public. Go to www.lightwork.org/uvp for more information.