Black Ibis (Zwarte Ibis)
North American Premiere, In-Person + Virtual
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
Streaming is available in the U.S. from 9/16 12:00 AM EDT - 9/22 11:59 PM EDT.
This film is part of Shorts: Love Letters To You program.
Director Black Speaks Back
Country The Netherlands
Year 2024
Languages Dutch
Genre Drama, Experimental, Futurism, Surrealism, Black narratives, Poetic
Running Time 18 min
Black Ibis is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.
Shorts: Love Letters To You Screening + Q&A
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
The venue is wheelchair-accessible and has an all-gender bathroom. Live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be available. If you have any other questions, check out the FAQ page.
Tickets/Passes
Tickets
Regular (In-person): $16 ticket + $1.39 processing fee
Suggested* (In-person): $25 ticket + $1.62 processing fee
Regular (Virtual): $8 ticket + $1.19 processing fee
Suggested* (Virtual): $16 ticket + $1.39 processing fee
Festival Pass
PrideFull Pass: $54 pass + $3.34 processing fee
Virtual Pass: $24 pass + $2.59 processing fee
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Director's Statement
Zwarte Ibis was born from a commission by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution for their Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies biennial programme (2022-23). Grounded in Black Speaks Back's collaborative ethos, this project blurs traditional roles, placing collective creation at its core. Therefore, we emphasize that Black Speaks Back is included, if not centred, in all communication about this film. Black Speaks Back is a Belgo-Dutch grassroots collective and platform for Black experimentation that was founded in 2016 in Brussels and is now based in Amsterdam. Although frustration with the mainstream media and cultural landscape was one of the fertile breeding grounds for the creation of the platform, the collective does not just speak back but rather proactively initiates conversation, facilitates discussion, conducts art-based research, and creates poetic short films. BSB's work has been featured on a dozen film festivals, conferences, and cultural centers across the world. Their first film EUphoria (2018), received its International premiere at the Pan African Film and Art festival in Los Angeles and was awarded the prize for Best fiction at the Belgian Breedbeeld short film competition for new makers.
Director's Bio
