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Borrowing its subtitle from We Insist!, the 1960 jazz album by drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln, this film weaves texts, voices, archival footage and contemporary imagery into a powerful study of Black resistance. Across three acts of a visual and sonic collage, Languid Hands meditate on the precariousness of Black life, mobilising Black testimony to confront the limitations of law and legibility in testifying to the unseen and the unheard.

Toward A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace
Languid Hands | 2019 | UK | 30’ | Digital | English spoken

The screening will be followed by an extended conversation about the film and Black aesthetic practices of refusal with Languid Hands (the artistic and curatorial duo of Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Mason Jordan), writer/film programmer Yasmina Price, and curator LaCharles Ward.

Presented in collaboration with World Records Journal.

 

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