I am an educator, curator, artist, and researcher of Afrofuturism and Black Islam in the U.S. based in Baltimore, MD.

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  2. Co-founder of Islam & Print
  3. Trustee at the Awesome Foundation



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A Letter From the 8th Floor (2017)




2017

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3 min



Exhibition History:
2017, Born in Baltimore Film Festival, Baltimore, MD

A doomed long-distance relationship between the 3rd and 8th floors of an apartment building.



A Letter From the 8th Floor is an found footage short film that began as a fiction narrative –attached below – conveying emotion through inanimate objects. Because this story is set in the 1960's, I use footage solely from the 1950's and 1960's national public archives.