Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In a nod to a Festival panel from 2020, BlackStar x MOCA presents “Mothering and Laboring the Cinematic Revolution” with filmmakers and mothers: Amatus Ali, Sonya Childress (moderator), Loren Hankin, Tchaiko Omawale, and Numa Perrier. Black motherhood is sacred. As working artists, Black mothers labor in ways that are both immediately life sustaining and visionary. By centering the particular concerns of radical, mothering filmmakers, this conversation explores how care work is intricately connected to cultural work and asks how we continue to claim art as revolutionary for and from the masses while addressing the material concerns and conditions of working-class people. The fight to raise free Black children is ever present. These panelists offer insights and dreams from their personal, political, and artistic experiences nurturing, protecting, and freeing their kin.
About BlackStar:
BlackStar Projects creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of artists of color working outside of the confines of genre. We do this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film festival, the William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar, a film production lab, and Seen, a journal of film and visual culture. BlackStar has organized screenings and events in partnership with Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Barnes Museum, British Film Institute, Colgate University, ICA Philadelphia, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, MOCA, Sundance Film Festival, and Swarthmore College, among others.
In a nod to a Festival panel from 2020, BlackStar x MOCA presents “Mothering and Laboring the Cinematic Revolution” with filmmakers and mothers: Amatus Ali, Sonya Childress (moderator), Loren Hankin, Tchaiko Omawale, and Numa Perrier. Black motherhood is sacred. As working artists, Black mothers labor in ways that are both immediately life sustaining and visionary. By centering the particular concerns of radical, mothering filmmakers, this conversation explores how care work is intricately connected to cultural work and asks how we continue to claim art as revolutionary for and from the masses while addressing the material concerns and conditions of working-class people. The fight to raise free Black children is ever present. These panelists offer insights and dreams from their personal, political, and artistic experiences nurturing, protecting, and freeing their kin.
About BlackStar:
BlackStar Projects creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of artists of color working outside of the confines of genre. We do this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film festival, the William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar, a film production lab, and Seen, a journal of film and visual culture. BlackStar has organized screenings and events in partnership with Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Barnes Museum, British Film Institute, Colgate University, ICA Philadelphia, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, MOCA, Sundance Film Festival, and Swarthmore College, among others.
