Last spring I was fortunate to have my USC graduate seminar, Digital Pedagogies, receive an invitation to a virtual showing of Lance Weiler’s documentary project, Where There’s Smoke, https://smokeproject.com It was amazing experience that brought together Zoom, a Miro whiteboard, film, photography, and live performance. Weiler’s project began as an installation and premiered at Tribeca in April 2019 but with covid shutdown, he reimagined for an online context. Last summer, I interviewed Lance about the work, its past, present, and future permutations and his thoughts on what he has called “generative documentary.” You can read the interview in the latest Afterimage, March 2022, which you can find here: https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article-abstract/49/1/14/120356/Where-There-s-Smoke-and-the-Generative?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Below is a photograph from Lance Weiler’s show, Where There’s Smoke

I have been working on a documentary project on the South Carolina lowcountry for the last few years, which looks at issues of corrective histories and restorative justice. I was honored to be asked to contribute to a collection of essays and poems on history, truth, and healing in the Charleston area to be published in the book, Ukweli Searching for A Healing Truth, edited by Horace Mungin and Herb Frazier. The collection draws from a diverse collection of artists, activists, historians, community leaders in exploration of the topic. It is an important conversation that has insights throughout our country. For more on the book, please see this excellent essay from the editor, Herb Frazier, https://charlestoncitypaper.com/ukweli-horace-mungin-herb-frazier/

You can purchase the book here:

https://evepostbooks.com/product/ukweli-searching-for-healing-truth/