to render the infinite.
11 minutes, 23 seconds. Appropriated archival sources, Digital video. Looped. Single channel. 2021.
Repurposing archival footage from the Chicago Film Archives extensive collection alongside personal visual materials from the artist, to render the infinite is a speculative, non-linear visual response to notions of belonging, intimacy, and Black women’s cultural contributions through the everyday. The film explores nuanced notions of time and place through a Black queer woman’s gaze, beside Lorraine Hansberry's intellectualism and legacy, dislocated memory, love, and limitless feelings of Black aliveness. The film also features an original score from music historian and sound selector Ayana Contreras.
*to render the infinite was originally presented as part of Chicago Humanities Festival and Art Design Chicago Now, with African American Women's Magazine Media, entitled Imagining Chicago’s Future: An initiative funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art that amplifies the voices of Chicago's diverse creatives, past and present, and explores the essential role they play in shaping the now.