Entry: 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Short Film Challenge

MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!: The Water & The Zombie

Creator: Breanna Taylor
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MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!: The Water & The Zombie
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MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!: The Water & The Zombie

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A short film analyzing ​the complicated relationship between Black people and bodies of water. In the spirit of something being lost below the waves, only to resurface again; I am looking for what emerges or resurfaces from this study to help make sense of how water has been weaponized against Black bodies, looking specifically at the Atlantic Ocean. I revisit the time period of enslavement to explain how Black people have become a relic of the impacts of forcible and violent movement across the ocean.

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Breanna Taylor

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