Black Orpheus feat. Ghislan Timm

We chat with Ghislan Timm(Jess-lin/Jiz-lan) (she/they) an experimental filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto). We talk nighttime collage making, Romare Bearden, the way stillness feels, August Wilson, nature as the great muse, Jackie Shane's connection to Toronto, and finding references in the everyday.

Recommendations from this episode:

Romare Bearden, A Life in Art

August Wilson on His Pittsburgh Cycle

Jackie Shane

Money ( That's What I Want) Live Jackie Shane 

salt nayyirah waheed

Ghislan's work is influenced by Afro-Caribbean folklore and culture, Afro-futurism, soundscape, and cinema, and often appropriates archival film and imagery to shape non-linear narratives from fragments of memories.

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