Fluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River, it explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. (Ephraim Asili)
Also in these combined programmes
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Memory Palaces
Memories make us who we are. These filmmakers open up perspectives that allow us to come to terms with our memories, hold on to them or bring them back to life. Or you may choose to ritually bury them.
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PACT: Reframing History
Cinematic accounts and experiments using archival material offer new perspectives on the history of inequality, exclusion, racism and colonial practices.
Film details
- Canada, USA
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 23"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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