Is My Living In Vain
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Production year2022
Runtime40 min
Synopsis
Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of diasporic belonging, affirmation and community organising. Weaving together archival imagery, oral histories and 16mm shot footage on location. The film examines the emancipatory potential of churches as spaces of infrapolitics by exploring the sonic, political, spiritual and existential connections between specific communities across West Philadelphia and South East London.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : CNAC-Centre National d'Art Contemporain
- Foreign production companies : Gasworks, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary, Experimental
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France, New Zealand
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Great Britain, France, New Zealand)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 40 min
- Production formats : 16mm - Super 8
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Rating restrictions : None
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