Exited to announce that Black Fire will be a part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’  fall programming. On Friday, November 13 at 7:30 PM, seven Black Fire shorts will screen at the Academy Museum, followed by a conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold, moderated by Cauleen Smith.

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Then, on Saturday, November 14 at 7 PM, Black Fire returns to Now Instant Image Hall in Los Angeles for another screening, followed by a Q&A and conversation with Kevin and Claudrena. The program closes with Dooni (2025).

Streaming Wednesday, March 4 to Tuesday, March 17, 2026.

This artist duo originated with and is oriented around the ongoing film project Black Fire, which excavates and uplifts Black cultural history at the University of Virginia. With sharp analysis and combustible style, Harold and Everson are assembling a new anthology for a next-gen Black Arts Movement that is forged in the flames of the now. 

Featuring Sugarcoated Arsenic (2014); We Demand (2016); Fastest Man in the State(2017) by Claudrena Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson. The program General Relativity, Take Two is curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.