I Snuck Off The Slave Ship
Film
Curated by Lonnie Holley
Directed by Lonnie Holley & Cyrus Moussavi
Running time: 18 minutes
Lonnie Holley has been adrift across the timelines for longer than he can remember. Using advanced technology of his own design, Lonnie Holley does his best to transgress reality with his imagination, liberating the people he meets along the way. Temporal talismans guide Lonnie through the fragmented mundanities and phenomena of the Black American experience, as felt in his own life and beyond.
“Drawn out of the muck of America by Lonnie Bradley Holley Sr., a self-taught African American Artist,” this film accompaniment to Holley’s song I Snuck Off the Slave Ship adds a new frequency to Afrofuturist time travel. Shot around Lonnie’s home in Atlanta, GA., I Snuck Off the Slave Ship is the first time Holley, an acclaimed visual artist and musician, directs a film. Built from the scraps of his life and hard sci-fi alterna-realities, the short film is an assemblage of Lonnie’s encounters with the slave ship “America” and a testament to imagination as resistance.
