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BLACK TIME, QUEER TIME: PART 1

January 9 – January 21

January 9-21, 2026

Black and queer time contradicts the conventional time of calculation and chronology. Never monolithic and always multiple, it repeats, returns, and escapes the constraints of linear progression and binary division. As a medium distinguished by its capacity to create and manipulate time, cinema is an ideal form for remaking, reimagining, and reordering black and queer ways of being in time – channeling temporalities that are kaleidoscopic, dissident, cyclical, fragmented, and fluid. Time is stretched, socialized, and stolen (back).

“Black Time, Queer Time” presents a rebellion against the domineering standardized time of antiblackness and heterosexism on film, taking shape as narrative feature, documentary study, video-essay, archival experiment, avant-garde vision, and hybrid non-fiction. The series invites a global black cinema that cannot be captured or controlled or closed off, and confronts historical, contemporary, material, and psychic violence as a problem of time. As they defy both the clock and the camera, these audiovisual works remain suspicious of coloniality, visibility, and respectability. Moving through political spaces, intimate refuges, and relational histories, they operate through the time of the earth and the cosmos, the everyday and the nation, the dead and the living, order and improvisation, grief and pleasure. “Black Time, Queer Time” refuses regulation and desires another way.

Guest-programmed by Yasmina Price, who wrote the introduction above. Part 2 of “Black Time, Queer Time” will take place this spring.

Special thanks to all the artists, and to Amy Aquilino (Women Make Movies); Brian Belovarac (Janus Films); Hanan Coumal (LUX); Marcus Hu & William Gruenberg (Strand); Susan Lord (Vulnerable Media Lab); Emily Martin & Kristin MacDonough (Video Data Bank); Liza Mackeen-Shapiro (Joy Harris Literary Agency); Karl McCool & Jooyoung Park (Electronic Arts Intermix); Madeleine Molyneaux (Picture Palace Pictures); Jake Perlin & Andrew Adair (Cinema Conservancy); Julia Petrocelli (Film-Makers’ Coop); JT Takagi, Roselly Torres, and Shu Wang (Third World Newsreel); Matthew Wong (Frameline), and The Zora Neale Hurston Trust.

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