* Artistic Freedom Ltd. is producing Roxie15, a short film about a “virtual reality programmer working on the project she hopes will change her life. Things are good, until the software she has created is infected with a virus. Things go from bad to worse when the virus comes after her.” The film takes place […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Roxe15, Afronauts, Donations, Brooklyn Museum, Oya Film, Logo…Rho-cass from DeviantART. “Pseudospring” “The idea behind it — biomechanics. Maybe she’s some cybernetic organism that draws energy from ‘energy springs’ that crop up in the form of these weird ‘cyber trees.’”
Read More Art of This World: Rho-CassUltraSol – Love and Enduring Perception South African director Phetogo Tshepo Mahasha‘s trailer for latest animated short film. The trailer alone looks epic!
Read More Otherworldly Videos: UltraSol TrailerEthiopian-American rapper Gabriel Teodros of group Copperwire, gives a speech about hip-hop, media corporations and technology, activism, and afrofuturism. Some of the quotable parts from it:
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Hip-Hop and Science FictionI am one who likes to believe in synchronicity and having watched a National Geographic documentary a few days ago called, “When Aliens Attack,” this panel at the Museum of the Moving Image happened at the right time. What does our encounters and representations of the outsider or “alien” reveal about our psyches? On Sunday, […]
Read More Modern Griots Recap: The Outsider in Science Fiction PanelAfter attending the Oya and Anyanwu program on Wednesday, I did a search on the Anyanwu from Wildseed and came across a dance performance, called Octavia. Dancer Staycee Pearl choreographed this project and presented it last year. It is a tribute and exploration of Octavia Butler’s work and life, bringing her magical and sci-fi literature […]
Read More I Could Dance, Dance, Dance All Night: OctaviaDespite this hilarious shallowness of this trailer, The Brother From Another Planet actually presented a number of deep ideas. A few days ago, I watched it, and some of the obvious themes were immigration (“the brother” crash lands on Ellis Island), migration, fugitivity (he is on the run from two white alien bounty hunters and […]
Read More The My-Stery: The Alien Perspective*This Saturday, Muthawit Orchestra will be performing with legend Leon Ware at the 7th annual URB ALT Festival at BAMCafe in Brooklyn, New York City. The show starts at 8:00 pm. *Also, this Saturday, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute will be presenting a dance event, Moving with MUV in Brooklyn, New York. The […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: URB ALT, MUV, Mahogany Masquerade, Anthologies, Alien Race BodiesPumzi director, Wanuri Kahui gives a TEDxNairobi lecture about Afrofuturism from different African perspectives.
Read More What Is Afrofuturism? Part 13: Wanuri KahuiI just finished reading Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories and I want to highlight a passage from her essay “Positive Obsession:” …what good is science fiction to Black people? What good is any form of literature to black people? What good is science fiction’s thinking about the present, the future and the past? What […]
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Sherese Francis 