Seen, Issue 010

Seen is a journal of film and visual culture focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally, published in print and online by BlackStar Projects.

In this issue:

BlackStar Film's 15th year of programming and Seen's 10th issue thematically ground this issue in reflection and remembering. Nehad Khader writes about some of the festival's most unforgettable screenings, Arthur Jafa speaks with Róisín Tapponi on his return to cinema, directing his first feature at 65, his kinship with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and his artistic roots in Daughters of the Dust. Cheryl Dune looks back at her directorial choices in The Watermelon Woman and considers how the film, made with little money and time, has become queer canon and a touchstone for Black lesbians and studs 30 years later. Elsewhere, Meriem Bennani, director of the genre defying Bouchra, a semi-autobiographical animated film about a Morocon coyote filmmaker, is profiled by Samia Labidi. She writes that for Bennani, "Imagination is not escape. Imagination is the practice that keeps us capable of collective transformation." 

Published by Blackstar
Softcover
127 pages
200 x 250 mm