Zeinabu irene Davis
A archaeologist of Black memory and diaspora, Davis excavates cinema from the margins, Super 8 intimacy, essay-film meditation, and the radical act of centering Black women's inner lives. Her films whisper where others shout.
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Pandemic Bread
Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic.
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Both approach the body and memory through fragmented, sensory cinema — intimate portrait work that refuses easy narrative closure.
Both filmmakers excavate diaspora and ancestral presence through experimental form — ghosts and memory made visible.
Shared commitment to durational time, the supernatural as lived experience, and cinema as a space for invisible histories to surface.
Both working outside dominant film industries to articulate Black subjectivity — poetic resistance through experimental and independent practice.
