Revival!

BlackStar, home of the annual BlackStar Film Festival, celebrates and provides platforms for visionary Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.

BlackStar Projects

An audio-visual meditation on Black spiritual and ecstatic experience.

Part virtual dance party and part live performance, Revival! is a celebration of the visual and sonic frequencies that are contained within and spill out of Black spiritual and ecstatic experience. This series will take the form of three 2-hour long livestream sessions in June. During these engagements, longtime friends and frequent collaborators DJs Lil’ Dave, Oluwafemi and Rashid Zakat will take turns creating live sound mixes over moving image backdrops. As accomplished cultural workers each in their own right, Lil’ Dave, Oluwafemi and Rashid Zakat are deeply invested and versed in crafting stories across genre. David 'Lil’ Dave' Adams is the producer and host of the podcast Excellent Reception, Rashid Zakat is a prolific portraitist and cinematographer, and Oluwafemi’s trajectory as a visual artist and illustrator situate them perfectly as a unit for this kind of cross-disciplinary, experimental work. Subtly drawing upon José Esteban Muñoz’s notion of ecstasy as “an invitation, a call to a then-and-there, a not-yet-here... a collective potentiality,” Revival! treats ecstasy not only as a corrective balm to injury but a world-making claim to the right of life, imagination and joyful expression, an especially critical response to our current moment. Offering us an opportunity to step out of the here-and-now and perhaps sensorially tap into what is not-yet-here, these artists use aural- and image-based motifs from the African diaspora to reverberate the intimacies and pleasures of shared spiritual experiences from across time and place.As most of us are learning how to reimagine and practice what collective joy and resilience looks like in times of crisis, Revival! attempts this through the bodily, nostalgic and dreamlike registers of shared memory and meaning making.Episode 1: Rashid ZakatJune 14, 2020, 2pm EDTEpisode 2: Lil’ DaveJune 21, 2020, 2pm EDTEpisode 3: OluwafemiJune 28, 2020, 2pm EDT***Revival! will be broadcast LIVE on BlackStar's Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/blackstarfest***Sponsored by the <a href="https://pahumanities.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pennsylvania Humanities Council</a>Hosted in partnership with <a href="https://iceboxprojectspace.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Icebox Project Space</a>

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