Kai Ajamu Joy is a student, prose-poet, and net artist based out of Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oberlin. She attends Oberlin College, where she studies creative writing. She is a biracial transgender woman who reads, watches, writes, and creates in order to make sense of the messiness of identity and subjecthood. She is grateful for all of the opportunities she has been given.
“Lend Your Ear to the Dead:” Paul Anton Smith on Mining Cinematic History for his New Film
“Sitting in a movie theater focuses our attention onto one thing; it overwhelms the senses in such a way that the experience is close to hypnosis, freeing the unconscious: their story, on-screen, becomes our story.” Filmmaker Paul Anton Smith (editor of Christian Marclay’s The Clock) shares his love of cinema and the process behind the masterful editing in his montage film Have You Seen My Movie?