Workshop presented by Rashid Zakat

This workshop explores cinema as an interactive and living form using Revival!, a public space installation as a case study. Revival! celebrates the visual and sonic frequencies that stage Black social life. Using turntables, video is edited like a DJ, where mixing and re-mixing media from social platforms, internet ephemera, community archives, and documentaries create an immersive experience.  

The workshop begins with a demonstration of Revival! before exploring how turntables and other tools enable haptic editing, which allows for the use of the body in the editing process. We’ll examine how sourcing and weaving archival materials creates alternative filmmaking workflows. This session highlights the relationship between DJs and filmmakers as transmitters of memory, offering practical approaches to live video mixing, building digital-first archives, and creating participatory cinema.

Presenter Bio

Rashid is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist whose work cultivates Black social aliveness through film, music, internet art, photography, and creative space-making interventions. He’s a cultural archivist, DJ, and technologist who creates immersive experiences that reclaim the generative aspects of the Black Pentecostal tradition, transforming joy, ecstasy, somatic liberation, and fellowship into political acts. His practice spans immersive performances, interactive web-based projects, installations, and ongoing explorations with AI. His work has been presented internationally across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Asia.

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