ACT III: (Revisited) — To Be Seen (Film Series)
Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen is a film series curated by the Akojo Film Collective that extends Act 3: As Visible as Blood through the moving image.
The series foregrounds Black femme life, labour, intimacy, and becoming across the diaspora, attending to the conditions under which Black femmes are rendered visible, asked to labour, and find ways of living otherwise.
Screening Schedule
Thursday, February 26, 2026 / 6:30 pm — The Cinematheque
Alma’s Rainbow (1994)
Alma’s Rainbow offers an intimate portrait of a mother and daughter negotiating Black womanhood, desire, and self-definition through music, dance, and intergenerational care. Moving between tenderness and tension, the film imagines becoming beyond the demands of respectability and the gaze.
Tickets available at The Cinematheque
Saturday, March 14, 2026 / 6:00 pm — SFU (School for The Contemporary Arts)
Sugar Island (2024)
Set in the Dominican Republic, Sugar Island follows a young Black woman navigating displacement, labour, and becoming amid the afterlives of plantation economies and state violence. The film traces Black femme agency as it emerges through refusal, inheritance, and collective survival.
Tickets available at SFU - School for The Contemporary Arts (2 weeks before screening)
