SEQUENCE 01: Diasporic Reckoning

Curated by NO EVIL EYE, this compilation of short films forms a lyrical meditation on race, class, and borders that mirrors the growing migrant community and changing landscape of Columbus, Ohio. (program approx. 46 mins., digital video)

SEQUENCE 01 is presented at the Wex as part of Free Space, a microcinema and community resource lounge located in the Wexner Center’s entry gallery, just off the lower lobby. The program screens Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1 and 4 PM; Thursdays at 1, 4, and 6 PM; and Saturdays and Sundays at 11 AM, 1 PM, and 4 PM. The galleries are closed on Mondays.

Program lineup

Landmark
(Sahal Hassan, 2018, 4:11 mins.)
Landmark is a meditation on public memory and public space in the shadow of chattel slavery. Over the course of a stroll through Manhattan’s historic Financial District, the short investigates the very American process of forgetting how we got here.

Confrontations
(Natasha Woods, 2018, 11 mins.)
A rope, a picture, a letter, blowing in the wind, an active resistance of the past being over and done with. Merging of landscapes and unexplained doubles. Tracing a mother’s journey from Brazil to Iowa for a better life. A documented attempt to understand relationships of personhood, memory, life, and death.

Disintegration 93–96
(Miko Revereza, 2017, 5:27 mins.)
The insecurities and pent-up emotions of an Filipino immigrant in the USA give way to political ruminations and critical commentaries on the colonization of the mind by the American Dream.

How Did Home Receive You?
(Claudia Owusu, 2018, 3:29 mins.)
How Did Home Receive You? is an exploration of the immigrant's return home, and a documentation of how time transforms moments, places, and views of the self. Claudia Owusu is a Columbus-based filmmaker and a member of the Wex’s Community Artist Residency Group, which works closely with the center's Department of Learning & Public Practice.

Herat in my Head in my Heart
(Weeda Azim, 2016, 2:15 mins.)
A long-distance telephone call from Canada to Afghanistan remedies misplaced cultural nostalgia and soothes the pain of war in this avant-garde short.

Tu seras mon allié (You Will Be My Ally)
(Rosine Mbakam, 2017, 20:18 mins.)
Domè (35 years old), from Gabon, is intercepted at Brussels airport. It seems that her papers are not in order. She is subjected to a long interrogation. She is accused of forgery and use of forgery. Will she reach the end of her goal: to be accepted on the Belgian territory?