Untitled (How High the Moon)

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Rashida Bumbray’s short film Untitled (How High the Moon) reimagines her mother’s childhood visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the lens of magical realism.
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Rashida Bumbray
Director
Rashida Bumbray is a curator and choreographer. Her performance and experimental film work draws from Black vernacular and folk forms, including ring shouts, work songs, hoofing, and the blues—accessed through research, a lineage of Black women dancers, and teachers, and the architectures of improvisation, surrender, and possession.
- Year 2024
- Runtime 10 minutes
- Country United States
- Language English
- Director Rashida Bumbray
- Producer Jasaun L. Buckner
- Executive Producer Rashid Shabazz
- Co Producer Daphne Hernandez
- Cast Elijah Allen, Frederica Glaser, Rashida Bumbray, Sherry Bellamy, Suzanne Bellamy, Zahara Shabazz
- Cinematographer Jamal Solomon
- Editor Stefani Saintonge
- Sound Design Corey De’Juan Sherrard, Jr.
- Premiere Philadelphia