6:30 PM
Camera & Memory: An Intervention Into The Personal and Family Archive
Join filmmakers yordi and serena as they share their documentary filmmaking process. Through an in-progress viewing of their archival projects and interactive discussion,
serena and yordi wrestle with the grief and the joys of painting full pictures of their fragmented family archive and the legacy left behind by their most recent ancestors. They hope participants will leave with an idea of how to begin their own personal and/or familial archiving project.
LOCATIONJoin filmmakers yordi and serena as they share their documentary filmmaking process. Through an in-progress viewing of their archival projects and interactive discussion,
serena and yordi wrestle with the grief and the joys of painting full pictures of their fragmented family archive and the legacy left behind by their most recent ancestors. They hope participants will leave with an idea of how to begin their own personal and/or familial archiving project.
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serena violet hodges is a documentary cinematographer and filmmaker. serena has worked on series including High on the Hog (Netflix) and Asian Americans (PBS) and provided cinematography for Academy Award winning short film, The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024), and documentaries, Food & Country (Sundance 2023) and Following Harry (Tribeca 2024). In 2023, serena completed a documentary archival research program certified through Netflix.
yordi samson is an emerging filmmaker living in Minneapolis, originally from Addis Ababa. She crafts an experimental archival storytelling in her film that weaves together the unshared stories of her ancestors—immigrants, caretakers, sex workers,bar keepers,navy officers, healers—highlighting their resilience, survival, and legacy.
Drawing from her own lineage and the teachings of black survivalists. yordi's film making approach confronts her place within the diaspora, wrestles with belonging - using present and past audio footage as a means to challenge historical erasure, honor collective memory, and explore the complexities of identity, survival, and hope amidst the struggles of the past and present - and even the future.
yordi samson is an emerging filmmaker living in Minneapolis, originally from Addis Ababa. She crafts an experimental archival storytelling in her film that weaves together the unshared stories of her ancestors—immigrants, caretakers, sex workers,bar keepers,navy officers, healers—highlighting their resilience, survival, and legacy.
Drawing from her own lineage and the teachings of black survivalists. yordi's film making approach confronts her place within the diaspora, wrestles with belonging - using present and past audio footage as a means to challenge historical erasure, honor collective memory, and explore the complexities of identity, survival, and hope amidst the struggles of the past and present - and even the future.