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Shola Amoo + Shawn Theodore | Race, Gentrification and Art (2017)

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Channel: Reelblack One · 2017 · Music

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British filmmaker SHOLA AMOO (Touch) and American photographer SHAWN THEODORE discuss how gentrification and displacement influence their art in this Q&A moderated by scholar, artist and activist Nehad Khader, which followed a screening of Amoo's film, A MOVING IMAGE. Filmed April 1, 2017 by Mike D. for Reelblack at the African-American Museum in Philadelphia.  https://www.amovingimagefilm.com

Shola is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, his graduate film Touch won Shooting People’s Film of The Month competition, chosen by Oscar nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. Touch also toured the UK as part of The BFI’s Sci-Fi season.

Shola’s debut Feature is a multimedia Film called A Moving Image. It had its World Premiere at The LA Film Festival 2016 in competition for the World Fiction prize and received The Special Recognition Award at The Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia. Shola was recently commissioned by The British Council to direct a reinterpretation of Othello written by visual artist Phoebe Boswell as part of “Shakespeare Lives”.

Shawn Theodore’s Church of Broken Pieces is a photographic exploration of the psychic, physical and technological translocation of black America. Theodore’s photos document the success of the movements toward plural black identities, and free, safe black digital spaces (such as Black Twitter) and futures - even as displacement/gentrification, socioeconomic disparity, and violence threaten to impinge progress.

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