it be your own people

it be your own people is a cinematic assembly of reference materials contextualizing the love needed to thrive particular to people in a city called Philadelphia, and even more particular to Black North Philadelphians. We make a shrine for ourselves as descendants channeling the energy of those millions of Black folx who left the american South, fleeing the predetermined violence of that space. Traveling a calibrating sequencing of images and symbols, we generate a shrine for the lovers- my maternal Grandparents who met in the 1940s as temporary residents and newly immigrated UpSouth workers at the Divine Lorraine Hotel. Media materials are assembled, disassembled and assembled again to articulate the world of its subjects. The calibrating environment is created in collaboration with an ensemble of writers, family members, technicians and rhythm keepers. This work is a meditation of relationship, intervention, devotion, critical fabulation, chromotherapy, ecology, possibility, desire and difficulty.