Atmospheric Arrivals

This film is at once a living archive/polytemporal memory bank and a love letter to my other selves. I consider the act of revisiting my personal archives a time travelling practice and incorporating this into my films is an exercise in making said practice legible to others. “Atmospheric Arrivals” is about home and the (im)possibility of return. The “atmospheric arrival” captures a means of coming into being through memory and imagination; by reaching across spacetimes to “fetch” parts of the self that may exist in elsewheres.

Film Maker
Tsalithaba, Ayo
Year
2023
Country
Canada, Ghana, Lesotho, South Africa
Length
6
Language
English
Category
Aging, art & artists, Black, body, Canada, dance, Diaspora, gay, Gender, Geography, Identity, Immigration, LGBTQ, Memory, Oral Histories, Race + Ethnicity, sexuality, Society, Sound Art + Music, spirituality, Time + Space, Trans*
Genre
experimental, queer, short

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