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KJR Studios

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



© Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All rights reserved.
otherwise, 2021
Animation and Graphics Consultation: Mpho "Solid" Madi (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Medium: Signal Channel Video
Runtime: 00:04:53
Video Resolution: 4096 x 2160
Orientation: Landscape
Aspect  Ratio: 16:9
Sound: No
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Screenings: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Southern California Campus located in Riverside, California.

Trailer:
Trailer by Mpho “Solid” Madi

Stills:








Film Excerpts: Dream Deferred featuring Fannie Lou Hamer (Harvey Richards, 1964); Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone, 1965); Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone, mid-1970s); Winter in America (Gil Scott-Heron, 1975); Clearing California Skies (California Air Resources Board, 1998); Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) Rally (EPA.net, 2007); California air quality: One-third of population deals with sub-standard air quality (The Los Angeles Times, 2014)

Texts Cited: Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2016. and Crawley, Ashon T.. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. United States: Fordham University Press, 2016.