a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi

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Short Film

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a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi is an experimental documentary that delves deep into the complex interiority and fluid conversations among today's Blackqueer youth. This dynamic and non-linear supercut provides a carefully crafted audiovisual space for the multiplicity of Blackqueer self-expression to traverse candid everyday moments of joy, melancholy, introspection, euphoria, loneliness, and community-in-active-formation. This short film is a testament to the potential of Lo-Fi and D-I-Y aesthetics as Afropresentist portals reveling in the messy journey of becoming Blackqueer. With a distinct yet nostalgic direction, editing style, and sound design embedded in low-resolution, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi is a refreshing, necessary, and expansive exploration of Blackqueer folks' endless coming of age.

The editing style of a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi complicates the viewer's understanding of what they see and hear, granting a sense of opacity to the eleven Blackqueer folks featured in the film. Inspired by early Nollywood cinematic productions and Blackqueer DJ mixes, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi is rooted in the abstraction of everyday life. Sonic collages of field recordings, loose, muffled, and fleeting fragments of conversations, personal reflections, voicemails, and a genre-bending score make the soundscape of this film a vast limbo that emulates the stitched flow of emotions, topics, and settings. With Blackqueerness in an ever-looming flux, the continuously disruptive edit of scenes, conversations, and tones makes room for Blackqueer folks' individual yet interconnected journeys to hint towards utopian possibilities beyond the confines of singular chronology, linear storytelling, and normative standards of existing.