I Snuck Off The Slave Ship

Acclaimed artist Lonnie Holley's film I Snuck Off The Slave Ship premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
Featured CBF Artists
Acclaimed artist Lonnie Holley‘s film I Snuck Off The Slave Ship premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019. It was created with Cyrus Moussavi, Brittany Nugent and Matt Arnett, and features cameo appearances by gospel singer and pianist Theotis Taylor and the Edeliegba Senior Dance Ensemble. The film accompaniment of Holley’s song of the same name from the 2018 album MITH, was shot around his hometown in Atlanta, GA, and is the artist’s directorial debut. “Temporal talismans” guide Holley through the Black American experience — but his freedom quest always seems to get trapped in the same point of discontinuum: the 4th of July, birthdate of the self-replicating slave ship, ‘America’. Built from the scraps of his life and hard sci-fi alterna-realities, the short film is an assemblage of Holley’s encounters with the slave ship ‘America’ and a testament to imagination as resistance.

Distributed By: 

Director(s): Lonnie Holley

Producer(s): Matt Arnett

Writer(s):

Editor(s):

Cast:

Music and/or Songs:

Language: English

Related Films

The Great Disconnect

Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are isolating ourselves from one another, and because of this, facing a health crisis that affects all ages, genders, races, and cultures.

Read More »

Michael, Emmadri, and the Mermaid

In the wake of her home’s destruction as Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle, a little girl finds herself in the stressful situation of her parents trying to find them a place to stay.

Read More »

Microplastic Madness

Microplastic Madness – Brooklyn kids take on plastic pollution is an inspirational and optimistic take on the local and global plastic pollution crisis as told through a refreshing urban youth point of view with a powerful take action message.

Read More »
Share This Page:

JOIN OUR PATREON Become a Connect Insider!

SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER

Let's Connect!