The Weight of the Heat: A Meditation on Black Aliveness from New Orleans

This experimental ethnographic film is based on fieldwork among African American religious practitioners in New Orleans, in the extended wake of Hurricane Katrina. Using collage and animation as critical methods of creative social inquiry, the scenes explore how people contend with overlapped conditions of vulnerability and violence yet find ways to (re)define and embody the terms and possibilities of Black being and becoming.

European Premiere

This film is part of Shorts Collection 5 - Healing Rituals.