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Rooney Elmi

Rooney Elmi is founder and managing editor of SVLLY(wood), a biannual print and digital movie magazine geared toward radical cinephilia. The recipient of the 2017 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, her writing has been featured in i-D, cléo, Film Comment, Real Life Magazine and more. Follow her on twitter @zenonthesequal.

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An Essential Watchlist of Groundbreaking Black Documentaries

by Rooney Elmi June 24, 2020May 16, 2022

These films illustrate both the undeniable threat of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and the incomparable strength of Blackness.  

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Processing Mortality With Cinema

by Rooney Elmi February 12, 2020October 8, 2021

In Dick Johnson Is Dead, Kirsten Johnson pens a mischievous love letter to her father about the only universal guarantee in life — death.

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In Maine, a Space to Spur Change in Documentary

by Rooney Elmi October 10, 2019November 4, 2019

The Camden International Film Festival chose “Power and Story” as the theme of its 15th edition.

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What Happened When a Filmmaker Asked Black Women Whether They Feel Safe

by Rooney Elmi October 8, 2019May 17, 2022

Hyperallergic talks to artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary about her award-winning short The Giverny Document and negotiating power in film.

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A History of Protest and Activism at the Oscars

by Rooney Elmi March 1, 2018March 1, 2018

While we wait for what the Academy Awards might hold on Sunday, it’s worth revisiting the ceremony’s history of protest, beginning with Marlon Brando’s rejection of his award in 1973.

UC Davis Arts and Humanities Grads Take Center Stage in Wide-Ranging Show
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UC Davis Arts and Humanities Grads Take Center Stage in Wide-Ranging Show

Featuring projects by 30 graduate students, this multidisciplinary exhibition is on view at the Manetti Shrem Museum through June 25.

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