Kingdom Bound

Appropriated film, video, B&W Super 8 scanned to digital 

Single Channel, 2020 

 

This extended portrait of Jada-Amina’s grandfather mediates the confrontation of coping with inevitable loss. Kingdom Bound interrogates immortality, loss, and defiance. Bearing witness to the deterioration of their grandfather’s memory and vision, Jada-Amina examines their relationship to their grandfather and Black masculinity. 

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 I’m Going Home Like A Shooting Star

00:14:29 min

Appropriated film, video, B&W Super 8 scanned to digital, 2020

 

I’m Not Going To Die, I’m Going Home Like A Shooting Star is a work  that employs original footage of Jada-Amina, their family and appropriated film and video to weave a narrative of radical mothering, ancestral destiny and Black queer future. ‘I’m Not Going To Die, I’m Going Home Like A Shooting Star’ is a place where our life is eternal.

Revolutions

00:01:35 min

B&W Super 8 scanned to digital,2017

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Revolutions is a meditation of disparate celestial bodies participating in revolution. Jada-Amina uses her body to create a political dialogue with the solar system to interrogate how the cosmos model our living.

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for your own protection

00:08:32 min sound, 1:32 min video loop

Appropriated film, video, B&W Super 8 scanned to digital, 2022

Single channel 

 

for your own protection is a meditation on the legacies and aesthetics of Black masculine cultural production. This exploration of collective care, joy, rage and survival amongst black men confronts accounts of intimacy, brotherhood, rivalry, HIV+ and encouragement. Eponymously inspired by poet-activist, Essex Hemphill, the work underscores the basketball court as the black man’s dominion and the world a battlefield -out of bounds. 

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available upon request

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