The Luminal Theater: "Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities" - 2/14 to 2/28/21

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Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities
February 14-28, 2021
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The Luminal is proud to bring you a brand new collection of six short films by Black filmmakers that are playing at virtual cinemas of arthouse cinemas spanning from Seattle to New York City.   Emotional, freeing, and even absurd, Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities filmmakers hope to subvert audience expectations as they offer an intimate glimpse into their world. 

The title of this collection is inspired by bell hooks’ writing on the oppositional gaze as resistance: ”Not only will I stare, I want my look to change reality,” and the theme, the “Paradox of Expectation”…the idea that wanting to rid yourself of expectations is a paradox – literally the expectation of no expectation, encapsulates the worlds all six of our filmmakers have built. Are they lying to themselves about who they are, or is the truth just not what they expect, but what they deserve?

For more information on this film series, please click here.