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‘Certain Winds From the South’ NY African Film Festival
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NY African Film Festival & Art Noir Co.
summer 2023
w/ with Courage (Dzidula) Kpodo


@blackdiscourse.co was invited by @artnoirco to host a Q&A after the screening of ‘Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer’ and  ‘Certain Winds From the South’ with Courage (Dzidula) Kpodo @dzidula_k , set designer.
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‘Certain Winds from the South’ : Adapting Ama Ata Aidoo's short story, Eric Gyamfi uncovers a vicious cycle of inequality in Ghana.
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‘Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer’ : In the second part of Daniela Yohannes’ ‘Atopias’ trilogy, a woman treks the Caribbean’s harsh natural landscapes in search of a transformational portal.


Zion Estrada (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist researcher living on Gabrielleno/Tongva/Chumash Land. Her work flows between archival assemblage filmmaking, sonic collage production and experiential design centering human and more-than-human (re)connection.

Zion’s  experimental collage language in film and sonic works often use layering of field recordings, found sounds and carefully curated sound clips that score a line of discourse that complicate temporality, history and meaning making. Her practice is informed by the palimpsest and Pauline Olivero’s Deep Listening. 

She is most interested in the non-verbal and more-than-human qualities of storytelling from the African diaspora (specifically the Caribbean) and how sounds hold the spirits of the past and the alchemic power to magnetize communities, movement, moods, and healing. She draws from the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity,  doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.

Zion is currently is practicing in emergent transformative justice work with Abolition Dream lab practicing in radical learning communities how to prepare, account, release and re-story the harms we have caused, the roots the harms have in culture and systemic violence  while centering care, healing and rest.

Zion is the Creative Director of Black Discourse, co-founder of Wild Grass Design + Research Lab and owner of BZE Consultant LLC.  She holds a M.A. Ed focused in participatory research and linquistics.

PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.

CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Exhibitor at the Ghetto Biennale in Jacmel, Haiti 2024
Participant in MIT Worlding Project Community 2023