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Experimental

Untitled (How High the Moon)

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A film still from Untitled (How High the Moon) shows a young Black boy in a suit playing the trumpet. In front of him, a young Black girl dressed in all white is looking up at him. Behind her is a sphinx positioned in front of presumably the side of a pyramid.

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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.








Directors Spotlight



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





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