Good For What Ails You
You Can Always Come Home
Full list of Films
Through Venus.
Through Venus is an experimental short film exploring questions of inheritance and mothering in a multigenerational and multicultural context. Themes of migration, displacement, and intimacy are ever present in this collage style family portrait.
Filmmaker: Nadiya Nacorda
Runtime: 5 mins. 50 secs.
Program Block Title: Good For What Ails You
Screening Date & Time: Saturday 3:30p
Location: Candela
Type of Film: Experimental Short
Country: USA
Year: 2021
You Can Always Come Home
As a young family and their friends prepare for a gathering, young children play throughout the home, revealing quotidian aspects of ritual, celebration, and love cultivated in the Black diasporic household. Guided by original poetry exploring the Black home as a sacred space, the internal architecture of the family and tangible infrastructure and history of Black Miami is investigated.
Filmmaker: Juan Luis Matos
Runtime: 6 mins. 10 secs.
Program Block Title: Good For What Ails You
Screening Date & Time: Saturday 3:30p
Location: Candela
Type of Film: Narrative Short
Country: US
Year: 2021
fufu
In the wake of death, a daughter converses with tradition.
Filmmaker: Omolola Ajao
Runtime: 14 mins. 3 secs.
Program Block Title: Good For What Ails You
Screening Date & Time: Saturday 3:30p
Location: Candela
Type of Film: Narrative Short
Country: Canada
Year: 2021
Coconut
Love Letter to Gladys Austin
Filmmaker: Jard Lerebours
Runtime: 3 mins. 24 secs.
Program Block Title: Good For What Ails You
Screening Date & Time: Saturday 3:30p
Location: Candela
Type of Film: Experimental Short
Country: United States of America
Year: 2022