Halimuhfack

Christopher Harris

2016 | 00:04:00 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | 16mm film

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: African-American, Experimental Film, Memory, Music, Performance

A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of documenting African American folk songs in Florida. The flickering images were produced with a hand-cranked Bolex so that the lip-synch is deliberately erratic and the rear-projected, grainy, looped images of Masai tribesmen and women, recycled from an educational film, become increasingly abstract as the audio transforms into an incantation. 

–– Christopher Harris

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Premiere

University of Central Florida Art Gallery
Orlando, FL
2016

Exhibitions + Festivals

Whitney Museum of American Art

Ann Arbor Film Festival

L’ALTERNATIVA Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona

Syros International Film Festival