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Seen journal

Seen is a journal of film, art, and visual culture, dedicated to platforming nuanced and rigorous writing by and about Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally. Seen is published in print, twice per year, by BlackStar Projects, home of the annual BlackStar Film Festival.

Issue 006, Editor-in-Chief: Dessane Lopez Cassell; Art Director: Raquel Hazell

  • Featuring Colman Domingo, Lily Gladstone, Charles Gaines, Danielle Deadwyler, James Ijames, Abigail Lucien, Isabelia Herrera, Kelli Weston, Simran Hans, Julian Adon Alexander, Tre Johnson, Jasmin Hernandez, Danielle A. Jackson, Fatima Jamaal, Yasmina Price, Clarkisha Kent, and more.

Issue 005, The Dreams Issue, Editor-in-Chief: Dessane Lopez Cassell; Art Director: Raquel Hazell

  • Featuring Anaïs Duplan, Aurella Yussuf, Beandrea July, Cauleen Smith, Clarkisha Kent, Deborah Anzinger, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Flordalis Espinal, Ifeanyi Awachie, Iris Torres-Gatherer, Isabel Ling, Jasmin Hernandez, Kambole Campbell, Kareem Reid, Kenny Rivero, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Lizania Cruz, Lou Cornum, Rashida Bumbray, Rianna Jade Parker, Rohini Kejriwal, Widline Cadet, Xia Gordon, and more.

Issue 004, Editor-in-Chief: Dessane Lopez Cassell; Guest editor: Darol Olu Kae; Art Director: Caroline Washington

  • Featuring Martine Syms, Sky Hopinka, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Moor Mother, Zeba Blay, Zoe Samudzi, Beandrea July, Dindga McCannon, Jasmine Weber, and more.

Issue 002, Guest Editor: Dessane Lopez Cassell; Art Director: Caroline Washington

  • Featuring Jlin, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, Isabel Sandoval, Joiri Minaya, Rikkí Wright, Astria Suparak, Erin Christovale, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Beandrea July, D’Lo, Janaína Oliveira, Meg Onli, Rachell Morillo, Razan Al-Salah, Terri Francis, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and more.

 
 

From troubled dreams under a glare of sky

Essays from nine writers in Scotland, exploring ideas of cinema and metamorphosis. Edited by Michael Pattison, produced by Tomiwa Folorunso, designed by Philip Morrell

Featuring the work of Zebib K. Abraham, Eilidh Akilade, Anahit Behrooz, Harvey Dimond, Katie Goh, Caitlin Merrett King, Kate Morgan, Xuanlin Tham, Jessica Widner.

Contributing edits (Dimond, Akilade, Morgan) by Dessane Lopez Cassell

image courtesy The Flaherty

Opacity – The 2021 Flaherty Seminar Catalogue

A reflection on the 2021 Flaherty film seminar Opacity, programmed by Janaína Oliveira, co-edited by Carol Almeida and Dessane Lopez Cassell. Designed by Darwin Marinho, Rid, and Ella Monstra of Carnaval no Inferno collective.

Featuring essays by Janaína Oliveira, Tina Campt, Tatiana Carvalho Costa, and Amaranta César, and interviews with Grace Passô by Christopher Harris, and Athi-Patra Ruga by Yeelen Cohen.

Billingual: English/Portuguese, 231 pages.

image courtesy The Whitney Museum of American Art

Julie Mehretu

A full-scale retrospective monograph of Julie Mehretu's work traces the development of one of America's most celebrated abstract painters, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Julie Mehretu, organized by Christine Y. Kim, curator of contemporary art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

By Rujeko Hockley & Christine Y. Kim
Texts by Adrienne Edwards & Andrianna Campbell

Chronology image rights and research by Dessane Lopez Cassell