BLACK PERSPECTIVES SHORTS
About the event
Bringing together five films from recent Festival editions, this shorts program moves through Black interiority and the everyday, from music and artistic practice to love, parenthood, memory, and remembrance. Rooted largely in Chicago while reaching beyond it, these films offer distinct portraits of Black life across form and experience, finding space for confrontation, tenderness, experimentation, and the histories we carry with us. PROGRAM BAILEY’S BLUES 2025, Shiloh Tumo Washington, U.S., 11 min, In English | Format: Digital When a French journalist interviews a Chicago-born blues musician, racial resentment from the 1960s rises to the surface. What begins as a generic interview becomes a charged conversation about the music business, race, and society at large. Played at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival in 2025. CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER DAY 2023, Bronzeville Collective,…
