Playing with a film history fraught with codes and tensions, Tafakory presents techniques that both conceal and illuminate, prohibit and point towards the forbidden in the same gesture. It is within this strange tension that the erotic emerges.
The Uses of Myth | Spectral Grounds: Black Experimental Film
“Not all featured works are formally experimental, but presented as experimental ontologically: the landing page of the website bears a curatorial statement that calls this practice “part of an endless repertoire and arsenal of Black survival.””