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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
2026, 01:22 minutes, colour
tapecode 2185.02
DISCO LIVES FOREVER is a single channel video that cites disco demolition night of 1979 as a focus point on the ways in which disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been erased. The film contemplates how disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been manifested in spite of disco demolition night.
what if we kept it between us? is a single-channel film that draws from archival footage of ballroom, voguing, juke, footwerk, dancehall and dance practices across the African and Black Queer diaspora. While drawing from house music godfather Frankie Knuckles, who oftentimes was asked what is house music, the question is… ⊕
A meditation on the misappropriation of Dancehall music while using Black Feminist Citational praxis. why some people be mad at me sometimes is a single-channel experimental film that cites the mother of Dancehall Sister Nancy singing her song bam bam in dialogue with Maya Angelou’s performance of the poem The Mask. The… ⊕
A Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕
An Indigenous trans man quits his abusive call centre job and ends up fighting an eviction, only to realize not everyone will survive his poverty.