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Langston Seattle/Black Film Festival
LüChi
Nathan Hale Williams; 2021; USA; 40 min.
Nonbinary author and journalist George Matthew Johnson’s transparent and sparkling memoir is the perfect source material for this moving and heartfelt adaptation. Johnson’s words are translated into a cinematic experience in which each of the characters represent Johnson at different stages of life, highlighting three pivotal moments that shaped Johnson’s understanding of their place in the world and chronicling trials, tribulations, and triumphs that have made Johnson into the person they are today.
CONTENT WARNINGS: NO CONTENT WARNING
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ALICE IN PARTS
Anastacia-Reneé; 2020; USA; 11 min.
Alice Metropolis offers a poetic and raging soliloquy of her blank(ness) and her Black space gentrified as she still maintains she has to “keep it moving.” Created by award-winning local writer and artist Anastacia-Reneé and most recently installed at the Frye Museum.