13-23 nov 2025
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Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death & Seeds
Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death & Seeds
Description
During this screening, the film Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death will be followed by Seeds.
Composition
Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death

Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death

A powerful video collage set to Kanye West’s “Ultralight Beam,” made from home videos, found footage, and archival material. Footage of African-American icons from sports, music, and politics intertwines with civil rights protests and police violence.
Seeds

Seeds

In contemplative black-and-white scenes, this award-winning documentary captures the daily lives of Black farmers in the American South, as they struggle to preserve their way of life and ancestral land amid poverty and discrimination.
Top 10
In her Top 10 selection, Guest of Honor Susana de Sousa Dias presents an exploration into collective memory and filmmakers rewriting their political narratives—looking to archives to reveal what was hidden in dominant versions of history.
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(nostalgia) & Obscure Light

(nostalgia) & Obscure Light

(nostalgia)

(nostalgia)

Hollis Frampton
United States
1971
36 min
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