About Black people, and made for Black people, Davis’s compositions — whether hazy, nostalgic, or sumptuously surreal — are of a world that is both familiar yet strange.
Author Archives: Dessane Lopez Cassell
Dessane Lopez Cassell is Hyperallergic's reviews editor. Outside of the office, she also works as a curator, writer, and film programmer. You can follow her work here.
Don’t Cry Cause It’s Over: A Program of Queer Experimental Shorts Reframes Loss
This Saturday, Anthology Film Archives presents Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens, a program of experimental shorts focused on experiences of loss, rebirth, and queer utopia.
In Brooklyn, a Night With Fluid Experimentalists Roland P. Young and L’Rain
Each known for their genre-bending improvisation, the two musicians will treat audiences to a special double bill at Public Records on Thursday — Young’s first solo performance in over 10 years.
Living With the Ghosts of Migration
In her debut feature Atlantics, Mati Diop renders stories of migration through a feminist lens, offering a meditation on who gets to forge their own path.
“There’s Some Leisure in It, Too”: Kevin Jerome Everson on Labor, Art, and Film
A recent recipient of the prestigious Heinz Award, the artist and filmmaker discusses his process and the importance of seeing art-making as another form of labor. Hyperallergic also has an exclusive stream of his short film Ears, Nose and Throat.
Revealing Lost Archives of Black Cinema and Creating New Ones
Hyperallergic talks to director Garrett Bradley about gaps in film preservation, her new film America, and the retrospective it’s a part of at BAM.
9 Highlights From Bushwick Open Studios 2019
We’ve selected gems from the 13th edition of Bushwick Open Studios, from elegant gouache depictions of domestic scenes to cheery dioramas of Sears build-your-own-home kits.
Parsing the Real and Unreal Stories of the Zambian Space Academy
As Nuotama Frances Bodomo’s short film Afronauts debuts online, the director discusses de-centering hero narratives and the weaponizing of reality against African stories.