Dreaming with the Archives Virtual Film Screening + Imagination Workshop with Black Film Archive
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As part of Kinfolk’s Dreaming with the Archives initiative, we are collaborating with Black Film Archive to curate a series of in-person and virtual screenings followed by Community Imagination Workshops. This film and workshop series explores how memory is (re)constructed through film, and the power of collective memory and world-building.
Join us on Thursday, August 7, for a virtual screening of two short films. Following the films, founder of Black Film Archive Maya Cade will facilitate a Community Imagination Workshop to explore the themes of memory’s creation—offering an exercise on how to use digital archives to build something and transform memory, the importance of using widely available tools (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox), and assessing risk of memory in the digital age.
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About the Works
Home Movie: 010245
We will be screening Home Movie: 010245 a public domain home movie featuring African American children on a playground competing in various activities facilitated by Los Angeles City Schools Recreation, likely in South Los Angeles in the early 1960s.
Teddy (1971)
We will be screening Teddy (1971), concerning the world of Teddy, a teenager in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, this film intimately explores his views on violence, the system, community involvement, and love.
Maya Cade and Black Film Archive
Maya S. Cade is the creator and curator of the award-winning Black Film Archive, a first of its kind digital archive, and the incoming president/owner of Milestone Films, the distribution home of Charles Burnett, Kathleen Collins, Bridgett M. Davis, Billy Woodberry, and countless others. She is based in Los Angeles.
Dreaming with the Archives
Dreaming with the Archives is a multi-city initiative presented by Kinfolk Tech Foundation, set to launch on Juneteenth 2025, to mobilize emerging technology and celebrate imagination toward cultural preservation and social justice. In the words of James Baldwin, our histories are trapped within us — we carry our histories as they breathe life into the future. This initiative asks, “What are the futures we want when we dream beyond our current narratives and systems?” and “What stories need to be preserved in order to imagine and build those futures?”
As part of Dreaming with the Archives Initiative, these histories, drawn from the archive, will not merely be retold but re-dreamed and turned into portals of possibility, through the Kinfolk platform, for healing, collective liberation, and reimagining narrative and systemic change — centering the collective thriving and futures of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and Queer communities.
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