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format
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client
publication
contributors
For Uvalde
short film
director, producer
Get Lit
summer 2022
Editor: @leilajarman; Director of Photography: @gabesandoval_; Gaffer: @camera.slut ; Key Grip: @toni.andres96; Sound Tech: @_heather_gray; DIT: @1800xochi
short film
director, producer
Get Lit
summer 2022
Editor: @leilajarman; Director of Photography: @gabesandoval_; Gaffer: @camera.slut ; Key Grip: @toni.andres96; Sound Tech: @_heather_gray; DIT: @1800xochi
"FOR UVALDE" was written and performed by Sierra Leone Anderson in response to the Uvalde shooting.
“fear is visceral on its own, but the particular chill of feeling unsafe in your own space is especially intimate. I casted my friends Sam, Olivia, and Leila because they know that feeling. I wanted everything about this film to be youth-centered and real.” - Sierra Leone Anderson
Get Lit asked Zion Estrada and Sierra Leone Anderson to create a metaphorical peice illustrating the rippling fear that other highschool students feel after witnessing shootings across the country.
The cast consisted of Anderson’s real life highschool friends Sam Lue, Olivia Smith and Leila Adams-Taylor. Get Lit - Words Ignite, executive produced this project using funds they received from the NBA Foundation to support black youth and workforce development.
“fear is visceral on its own, but the particular chill of feeling unsafe in your own space is especially intimate. I casted my friends Sam, Olivia, and Leila because they know that feeling. I wanted everything about this film to be youth-centered and real.” - Sierra Leone Anderson
Get Lit asked Zion Estrada and Sierra Leone Anderson to create a metaphorical peice illustrating the rippling fear that other highschool students feel after witnessing shootings across the country.
The cast consisted of Anderson’s real life highschool friends Sam Lue, Olivia Smith and Leila Adams-Taylor. Get Lit - Words Ignite, executive produced this project using funds they received from the NBA Foundation to support black youth and workforce development.
Zion Estrada (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist researcher. 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 researching traditional forms of care and practicing pod building and repair pracitces as inspired by Mia Mingus, Question Culture and the Abolition Dream lab.
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
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 researching traditional forms of care and practicing pod building and repair pracitces as inspired by Mia Mingus, Question Culture and the Abolition Dream lab.
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
Film
Sound Works
Appearances
- Texte Zur Kunst Film Review Issue No.133/March 2024 “Restitution”
- Quantum Listening: Sound as Form/Practice
- Black Reconstruction Collective discusses UNMONUMENT CHICAGO:After Work, the group’s contribution to the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
- Challenging the Perception of Preservation in Accra’s Architecture - Press
- ‘Certain Winds From the South’ NY African Film Festival
- Rhythmic Resistance
- Precious Time
- Love Extremist
- On the Art of Building New Language with Thando Hopa
- On the Art of Building from Scratch with Sandy Alibo
- On the Art of Lagosian Filmmaking with Arie & Chuko Esiri
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