Black on Screen: Black Feminist Shorts
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 2 - 5 PM: Firelight Media and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in NYC presented acurated program of Black Feminist Shorts.
The program gathered contemporary filmmakers whose work experiments with Black feminisms and queer world building across generations and geographies. Featuring films by Michèle Stephenson, Rraine Hanson, Sira Lewis, Raven Irabor, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Twiggy Pucci Garcon, and Ja'Tovia Gary, the screening celebrated radical storytelling grounded in spiritual embodiment, community gathering, and play. Together, these shorts offer tender portraits of Black feminist and queer worlds in motion. Following the films, we hosted a talkback with the filmmakers.
Watch a recording of the talkback here:
ABOUT BLACK ON SCREEN
Black on Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture, captures 100 years of local and transnational Black movement work and artistic evolution on film. Sourced from The Schomburg’s collection and others, it takes a kaleidoscopic look at Black life and expression across diasporas, rendering a range of storytelling traditions that incite and inspire Black world-building. The Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (MIRS, pronounced “meers”) at the Schomburg Center collects and preserves audio and moving image (AMI) materials related to the experiences of people of African descent. The division has amassed nearly 400 collections, approximately 5,000 square feet, in a variety of formats, which captures the gestures and sounds of major historical, artistic and cultural moments and influencers. While the strength is the Black American holdings there is considerable Caribbean and African representation in the collection. Learn more about this division.
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