i wonder shall i fly
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TW: Blown out highlights and lens flares throughout
Intimately kaleidoscopic archival footage of nature and the African diaspora is paired with 1940s interviews of formerly enslaved people reflecting on their childhoods, allowing a window into seeing Black history through their eyes while exploring rebirth, life and death.
Screenings
Virtual
Availability BeginsFriday, August 71:30PM EDT
Directors Spotlight
Harlan Banks
Director
Harlan Banks is a writer, director, and editor from Stanford, California. As a BFA student at New York University, he completed his first documentary feature film, 16 1⁄2. He’s interested in shining new lights on often-overshadowed perspectives through telling stories that subvert genre conventions and blur lines between documentary and narrative.
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 16 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Harlan Banks
- Producer
- Harlan Banks
- Cast
- Fountain Hughes, Laura Smalley, Wallace Quarterman, Amelia Dawley
- Editor
- Harlan Banks
- Composer
- Nate Eberhardt
- Sound Design
- Harlan Banks
- Premiere
- World