SUN NOV 22
6:00PM

4304 MELROSE AVE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90029
$15.00
limited seating

In this intimate screening and somatic-informed artist conversation, Emmy-winning storyteller Diahnna Nicole Baxter takes a bold second look at the personal and cultural relevance of her 2019 experimental short film Epigenetics — a story about a Daughter, prone to depression, who learns a family secret and struggles to survive its trauma, only to realize its poisonous pattern has been carried down through generations when she turns to her Mother for consolation.  If you’re ready to make space for sacred filmmaking, transformational conversation centering Black & Brown bodies, and the artistic process of unpacking archived work, this intimate pure creative gold experience is for you. 

Artist Note:
“This film was birthed from a poem I wrote as a way to process my family trauma that had just erupted. It became the space for my sacred rage to be lived and transmuted into art. My question is: what happens when we as black and brown women are the holders of secrets? What does rupture do to our bodies? How do we repair when the family unit would rather deny?”