Published 2025-01-01
“…Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain.
My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to
sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic
dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies.…”
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