Deluge is a short film Nijla Baseema Mu’min that explores African American’s relationships to water, informed by such traumas as The Middle Passage, the BP Oil spill, and Hurricane Katrina, through the lens of main character Tiana, and her introduction to an aquatic underworld.
I immediately though of this film when we read the Black Automaton and Douglas Kearny sharing poetree about black merfolk in relationship to the middle passage and the haunting and residue of colonial trauma.
here is link to more information about it & an interview with the filmaker
http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2012/05/nijla-mumins-deluge-magical-realism.html
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I immediately though of this film when we read the Black Automaton and Douglas Kearny sharing poetree about black merfolk in relationship to the middle passage and the haunting and residue of colonial trauma.
here is link to more information about it & an interview with the filmaker
http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2012/05/nijla-mumins-deluge-magical-realism.html
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