A Long Trailer for a Film About Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

A playlist of music videos and conversations about “what we keep after everything has been washed away”—through serial catastrophes such as floods and hurricanes, and human-made disasters” (Ntone Edjabe). The songs, dances and movements in this and the forthcoming film are monuments, repository sites, or resting grounds for cultural memory.

The playlist preludes Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, a forthcoming anthology film; a cinematic gathering of impossible loves whose frequencies surpass the limits of time and the bounds of space. The forthcoming film is made in episodes that include scenes produced in Lubumbashi, Leipzig, New York, Kampala and Kigali, rendered in fictions, songs, music videos, 3D animations, and archival recordings. Together, the scenes dramatise a montage of the diasporic: a planetary condition applicable also to those who remain in their native lands, whereby the existing ways of life are converted through forceful spiritual displacement and intense environmental transformations.

A Long Trailer is co-directed with Shariffa Chelimo Ali. Featuring Hannah Black, Sasha Bonét, Alexis Kagame, Cécile Kayirebwa, Miriam Makeba, Natacha Nsahimana, Olu Oguibe, Emmanuel Olunkwa, and more.