Conspiracy
This sonic wonder, which premiered as part of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, documents Leigh’s practice as a sculptor and her...
See moreThe Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's...
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Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history...
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The film explores the history of the United Order of Tents, a clandestine organization of black women in the 1840s, during the height of the...
See moreOutfox the Grave
A short film and a spell of protection.
See moreFootnote to the West
A dreamy fragment about the end of the world. A black girl wanders into a Hollywood western and mourns for the dead.
See moreUntitled (M*A*S*H)
Leigh’s video work Untitled (M*A*S*H) (2018) imagines a fictive order of black nurses operating on the front of the Korean War, a conflict that...
See moreA Quality of Light
"A Quality of Light" reaches into the filmmaker's familial lineage of black women artists. This film examines the under-told story of the haunted...
See moreMcKayla
Premiered at Cucalorus Film Festival
See moreToo Bright to See (Part 1)
Too Bright to See (Part I) weaves archival materials with cinematic narrative scenes filmed with an unconventional and modern cast. Drawing...
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