BlackStar Film Festival

Press & Industry: Volition Shorts

Available in 23d 17h 11m 33s
Available August 3, 2026 12:00 PM UTC
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5 films in package
Revival 24
Revival 24 captures an immediate moment within the third space in which, through the spirit, the Black male body transcends a singular notion of masculinity and the constraints of linear time. The film reflects an alternative tangible reality, where, through nonlinear time, the contemporary and the archival exist simultaneously.
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Our Bodies Ours
Our Bodies Ours is a short poetic animated film that explores the nuance and beauty of trans becoming from a diasporic lens. Leaning on the music of lyric, it reframes gender-affirming care as an intricate, intimate and meandering act.
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Glass Bricks
Deconstructing what it means to be a man, Glass Bricks challenges the outward presentation of gender conformity through self-expression. Giving us a peak behind the curtain, Finessa Jawn walks us through the process of what it takes to get into drag and shows us that community building and self-love should be felt regardless of how you identify.
Free Lyric
Reliving one of the first viral social media moments in rap culture, when a 17-year-old female rapper’s life was turned upside down by admitting to having an orgy, Free Lyric explores the experience of online callout culture, gender and consent.
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I Got My Brother
Two brothers reflect on their candid and often humorous memories of surviving the foster care system and prison, realizing along the way that their path to healing has always been each other.
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Claiming our bodies for ourselves.


Thank you to our screening partners: Twelve Gates Arts, me too. International, and Galaei.

The film’s use of repetition and movement points to an African sensibility of the spirit, rhythm and loop, affirming the concept of a circular, boundless existence — rejecting the linear narrative of beginnings and endings.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    Silent
  • Country
    Germany, England
  • Premiere
    North America
  • Genre
    Experimental
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Darryl Daley
  • Producer
    Darryl Daley
  • Cast
    Kelvin Kilonzo
  • Cinematographer
    Darryl Daley
  • Editor
    Darryl Daley
  • Composer
    Moki Kawaguchi
  • Sound Design
    Darryl Daley
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