A Protection, a Calling
Aliyah Blackmore
The short film shared here originally accompanied "Why do you wake up before the sun?" presented with Lucky Risograph press: part of the Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair (2021).
The layered images are clips of matrilineal family members, with overlays of the hibiscus flower, archival footage of travel videos throughout Barbados & parts of the Caribbean.
The background of the beginning-minutes includes the sound recordings of Barbados at varied moments of the day: the sounds of a cutlass hitting a hard surface &, later, a sound collaging of Tracie Morris's "Too Black," looped.
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A Protection, a Calling
Aliyah Blackmore is an Afro-Caribbean writer/researcher, (copy) editor, & DJ based in New York.
Through their art-making & research, Aliyah is interested in engaging with the multi dimensional threads, narratives & histories, that run through Caribbean & Black Diasporic experiences. Themes of Caribbean cosmology, queerness, ancestral memory as spirituality, history, identity, & place, are central to her work.