Carrie Hawks

Tells the story of a woman who started out with a seemingly simple task, just filling out a family tree. She uncovered generations of secrecy and shame. Outside of Tacoma, Washington, Delilah shares a very personal story her search and the ramifications that unfold.

Explores the exoticism of black hair. Once my classmate said my hair was like lamb's wool. The film has screened in several festivals and is included in Un:Read Press's installation at BRIC in Brooklyn.

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of Hip-Hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

Immersed in books since childhood, acclaimed text-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed is fascinated by the written word and its power to both define and destabilize how we understand the world. With a close-up style mirroring Kameelah’s own preoccupation with the fragmentary and barely legible, this film explores the artist’s expansive ideas and miniaturist process in her Brooklyn home studio.

Inner Wound Real relays the story of three BIPOC folks who self-injure, then find new ways to cope.

A ghost tour, including historical accounts of enslaved people traveling to other worlds around the time of the racist massacre of 1898.

It's time to feed, sheep beware. Splattering love. Vampire bats must feed, sheep beware. The film also pays tribute Disney’s Skeleton Dance, animated by Ub Irweks.

Speculating about the birth of rock and roll and the best curl pattern, this film explores Black queer identity and self-acceptance as a pathway to personal utopia. Origin of Hair culls from Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s legacy as a Black queer woman in the ’50s and ’60s, claiming power through musical invention and radical self-love.