Afronauts

The Futurism Is Ours is a program of afro- and feminist-futurist films that explore present-day dilemmas, envision the future, and re-imagine the past. By expanding notions of time, outer space, memory, and collective trauma, these artists treat cinema as a space for exploring and representing the often tangled intersections between diaspora and colonial legacies, utopia and dystopia, and for foregrounding a vision of black and queer liberation.

Afronauts (Nuotama Bodomo, 2014, 14 min.) 

Pain Revisited (Dyani Douze and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, 2015, 14 min.)

Fucked Like a Star (Stefani Saintonge, 2018, 8 min.)

Ecstatic Experience (Ja'Tovia Gary, 2015,  6min.)

Post-screening discussion with members of the New Negress Film Society (NNFS)

Curated and presented by NNFS

NNFS is a core collective of black women filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for support, exhibition and consciousness-raising. The group is formed by Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Nuotama Bodomo, Dyani Douze, Ja'Tovia Gary, Stefani Saintonge and Yvonne Michelle Shirley.

NNFS focuses primarily on works that break boundaries in film politically and artistically. Womanist in their content and experimental in form, often these are some of the most challenging for a marginalized filmmaker to create and distribute.

The Futurism Is Ours is a section of the year-long experimental film series, The American Experiment, supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.