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Across Time & Space: Black Queer Stories

This short film block encompasses the vastness of the Black diasporic experience transcending time and space, inspired by poet Nikki Giovanni’s proclamation, “the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.”

Short films showing in this program:

The Birth of Naikee

20 mins

The film follows the trajectory of Naikee, a black transwoman activist, in her quest for identity and freedom. By re-interpreting Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus," Naikee asserts her right to exist differently.

Chimera

18 mins

Haunted by the past, a brilliant tech-addicted developer faces an impossible dilemma: recreate her ex-girlfriend in virtual reality or hold onto the crumbling relationship with her current one.

Grace

13 mins

Sixteen-year-old Grace prepares for her baptism in the rural 1950s South. When she learns she must repent before the ritual, Grace contemplates her romantic feelings toward her best friend Louise.

If I’m Here It Is by Mystery

22 mins

New Rio, 2054. Renowned witch Dahlia arrives at the port with a mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and thus defeat the Order of Truth. In the future, many people are trans — but only a few are witches.

Saturn Risin9

10 mins

Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through dance, visual narrative, performance, and documentary.

Expected Guests

Natalie Jasmine Harris
Director (Grace)
Clari Ribeiro
Director (If I'm Here It Is by Mystery)
Tadáskía Morais
Actor (If I'm Here It Is by Mystery)
Éri Sarmet
Screenwriter (If I'm Here It Is by Mystery)
Tiare Ribeaux
Director (Saturn Risin9)
Saturn Risin9
Participant (Saturn Risin9)

Please Note: The Birth of Naikee will only screen with the Across Time & Space: Black Queer Stories shorts program in-person on June 27. It will not be a part of the streaming program.

Streaming Note: This program can be streamed anywhere in the United States.

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