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Basic Info
Release: February 23, 2022
Runtime: 20 min
Status: Released

Lunar New Year

2022 20 min
Overview

& so Lunar New Year is a durational effort, a sequence of 4 digital, 13 analog vertically oriented portraits, all made handheld with found and available light, presented in order of exposures taken. The series (swallows hard, accepts its truth) is a record in collaboration with those that allowed me to be in space with them, creating quiet encounters in the polyphonic city. Not all is pictured, not all are pictured, just what & who was made available through any number of very specific & amorphous conditions & agreements on this day. A study of the transformative power of light moving through space, & a sincere awe in the ability to render that still, & (as the Meshell Ndegeocello song says) yet it moves, offering the cinema of the everyday, offering description as narrative, operating in the multisensory—text, image, voice, my primary mediums, previously presented in the book, now in cinema, still the book: all efforts in dedicated sequencing.

Production Countries
  • United States of America
Spoken Languages
  • English en
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Cast
Ryan Clarke
Self
Justin Allen
Self
Slant Rhyme
Self
Elliott Jerome Brown
Self
Jr
Self
Jasmine Lee
Self
Daniel Sadiel Peña
Self
S*an D. Henry-Smith
Self
Shakira Evans
Self
Kia Damon
Self
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
Self
Arjun Ram Srivatsa
Self
Crew
S*an D. Henry-Smith
Director
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