My work reimagines Richard Prince’s Untitled, Cowboy through Black American cowboys, slowing cinema into stillness. In Good to me as I am to you (2022), sound, scent, and touch turn installation into a gathering place. Balloons, rugs, subwoofers, and Aretha’s voice hold slowness, pleasure, and maleness in suspension.
Read MoreMuch Handled Things Are Always Soft (2019) traces the racial and systemic dynamics of cruising in 1970s Chicago. Featuring Patric McCoy, the film honors Black queer intimacies shaped by segregation, while its guerrilla monument and screenings—from MoMA to the cruising app JACK’D—extend visibility beyond museums, reaching over three million viewers.
Read MoreThe Roach is Coming (2018, 00:15:22 TRT) begins with an intimate return to Adam, a childhood lover of mine who later became a police officer. After years of silence, our reunion unfolds as I process the aftermath of police violence I personally experienced in Chicago,IL one night after leaving a bar. In my glovebox sat my camera, and strobe - objects that point and shoot. This tension amongst so many other things—become the axis for which the film operates.
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