Thursday 8 May, Rich Mix, 6.30pm 

Borrowing its subtitle from We Insist!, the 1960 jazz album by drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln, Towards A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace weaves texts, voices, archival footage and contemporary imagery into a collective portrait of Black defiance. Across three acts of a visual and sonic collage, Languid Hands meditate on the precariousness of Black life, mobilizing Black testimony to confront the limitations of law and legibility in testifying to the unseen and the unheard. 

Towards A Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace 
Languid Hands | 2019 | UK | 30’ | Digital | English spoken

The screening will be followed by an extended conversation about the film and Black aesthetic practices of refusal with Languid Hands (the artistic and curatorial duo of Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Mason Jordan), writer/film programmer Yasmina Price, and curator LaCharles Ward. 

Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer completing a PhD at Yale University. She focuses on anticolonial cinema from the Global South and the work of visual artists across the African continent and diaspora, with a particular interest in the experimental work of women filmmakers.

Presented in collaboration with World Records Journal. 

This event is included in the Rich Mix Venue Pass. Pass holders can book a free ticket to this event and all other screenings and events taking place at Rich Mix as part of the festival. More information on the pass can be found here. 

Please see our Access page for more information regarding content warnings for this screening.