The Importance of a House and the pandemic formation of the ATLFilmParty community

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dc.contributor.authorGunn, Jennyen
dc.contributor.editorSborgi, Anna Violaen
dc.contributor.editorPatton, Elizabethen
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T09:53:19Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T09:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-07en
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the short films of the Atlanta-based black American filmmaker Olamma Oparah. Oparah’s film The Importance of a House was the winner of the inaugural ATLFilmParty (AFP) free film competition and industry networking event created by Brooke Sonenreich in the summer of 2021. Produced and directed in the era of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the US racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd, The Importance of a House iterates the home as a site of refuge. This article analyses Oparah’s short in the context of two other films she directed in the same period, Laundry Day and No One Heals Without Dying that similarly explore the meaning of home as a black, female, and spiritual space. Using an object-oriented and artist-centered methodology informed by the author’s work with the liquid blackness research group, this article argues that Oparah’s films as texts speak to the contextual needs that AFP meets in fostering a local and independent home for filmmakers in Atlanta facing global Hollywood’s increasingly dominant presence in the city and the region.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationGunn, J. (2024) 'The Importance of a House and the pandemic formation of the ATLFilmParty Community', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 26, pp. 154-168. doi: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.10en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.10en
dc.identifier.endpage168en
dc.identifier.issued26
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage154en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15521
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectIndependent cinemaen
dc.subjectBlack cinemaen
dc.subjectAtlantaen
dc.subjectGeorgiaen
dc.subjectFilm competitionsen
dc.subjectLiquid blacknessen
dc.titleThe Importance of a House and the pandemic formation of the ATLFilmParty communityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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