Until It Feels Like Worship
Until It Feel’s Like Worship is a visual prayer that speaks to the journey one takes through remembrance, connection, culture, and healing when met with the weight of grief. Set against the backdrop of Black Detroit, with echoes of Southern matrilineal memory, it serves as a balm, beckoning the viewer to return to themselves, carrying the things that have nourished them, offering nourishment to others, and allowing themselves to be nourished in return.
Writer and Director: Ashley ‘Ifayomi’ Douglas
Director of Photography: Toko Shiiki
Omiero
Omi translates to "Water" and Ero translates to "Cure" or "Antidote."
Omiero explores the connectivity that exists between water and descendants of enslaved people, and the way that water has been used as a conduit of healing and messaging in the womb, in ritual, baptism, spiritual bathing and across Diasporic identities and practices.
Featured in Detroit Narrative Agency’s “Ethics and Aesthetics” which premiered at Allied Media Projects’ Allied Media Conference 2020
Director of Photography: Desmond Love
Music Composer: Jason Vaughn
CEREMONY OF THE JOURNEY
“Ceremony of The Journey”
Is a marriage of film, poetry, and movement. It is a collection of imagery that presents the commuting experiences of Black Detroit natives and connects their experience to the divinity and sanctity of ritual and prayer.
Creative Direction
Assistant Director and Art Direction for Kresge Artist Chris Jakob
Art Direction for Kresge Artist Ajara Alghali