things i carry into the world

Experimental short
3min. Color and black & white.
2.4
2016

inspired by the work of four New York City poets, the film a meditation on the body, the feminine, the everyday realities of being young and black, and the fragile relationship between the manmade and the natural.

SCREENINGS
2016 Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN, World Premiere)
2017 Playa Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
2017 Brooklyn Film Festival
2018 Silk Road Int’l Poetry Film Festival (Best Int’l Film)
2018 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
2018 Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival

PRESS
NOWNESS (Online Premiere) / TIDAL / PBS - Thirteen / Blavity / Button Poetry / Designcollector / Film Shortage / Poets & Writers  / Shots / SHOOT Online / Moving Poems / Shots: New Directors Edition


Interview about the film here and here. 

CREDITS
by Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood
poem Cynthia Manick
featuring Esther Aloba, Trace DePass,
Nkosi Nkululeko, Makayla Posely
director of photography Frances Chen
producer Claire McGirr
editor Mark Potter
colorist Mikey Rossiter
sound mixer Paul Weiss
composers Rob Barbato, Matthew Compton
executive producers Todd Boss, Egg Creative, Carolyn Casey

in association with Urban Word NYC & Motionpoems