BELONGING, 6 min
A short film for Belmar History + Art
Unhurried and timeless, a couple travels between ocean and house, spirit and flesh. They embody hope and loss through postures of emergence and erasure. This visual journey stages the body as an archive of past, present and future. It is a reclamation for Black families who built and lost their homes by the sea. It is a conjuring of memory, of futures dreams.
Embodiment: Marjani Forté-Saunders, Everett Saunders & Everett Nkosi Zaire Saunders @7nms_
Producer/Creative Director: April Banks @aprilbanks_art
Director/DP/Editor: Wesam Nassar @wesam_the
Choreography/Music: d. Sabela Grimes @yameansupreme
Camera Operators: Gary Wright and Anaka Morris @4n4k4
Producer/Art Director: Susu Attar @susuhantusu
BTS Photography: Chinwe Okona @chinweokona
Filmed at Bay Street Beach, also known as The Inkwell, A Resurrection in Four Stanzas art sculpture and Palisades Beach. Funded by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Mezostudio.