PLAY†PREY is a gospel presented as a multi-channel film experience, that recounts a relationship between God, the Church, and a queer Black child. The four-part film, and its accompanying architectural display, explore the playful impulses, innocence, and underlying violence implicated in the experience of queer Black children in the Christian Church. Beginning with an overture to the story of queer Biblical reclamation, this film builds a spiritual narrative that contemplates the structures and rules imposed on pleasure, play, and sexuality under the rigidity of Black Christianity. The narrative takes inspiration from four lyrical sermons from James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombone: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. The film features an original soundtrack in collaboration with KYN (Josh Casey & Yari Bundy) and Vocals from Sandra Lawson-Ndu.
Featuring Actors: Aay Preston-Myint and Dominique Littleton | Voiceover Actor: Demetrius Cooks-Watson
Published by TELEMATIC MEDIA ARTS
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As a compliment to the multi-channel film experience, Play †Prey, artist Leila Weefur brings together voices of prayer and anti-prayer, inviting writers, Elena Gross, Creighton Baxter, Ngozi N/A Oparah, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Gelare Khoshgozaran to reflect on their relationships to God and the structures of religion.
Details: 7x10 in., 40 pages, Newsprint, Black and White Photographs by Leila Weefur, Designed by Nkiruka Oparah, Published by Clark Buckner, Telematic Media Arts, SF, CA.
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