In conjunction with A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, BAMPFA presents a screening of films by Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards. Both featured in the show, the artists made these works as part of their commission for A Movement in Every Direction. In Mississippi Goddamn, Brionne uses documentary filmmaking to consider her family connection to Columbus, Mississippi—the place where her grandfather was born and raised. Through music and dance, Richmond-Edwards’s film Leviathan considers the migration story of the artist’s family. In both works, the artists reflect on personal and familial narratives within the larger historical context of the Great Migration.

Following the screening, Brionne (via Zoom) and Richmond-Edwards join a conversation and Q and A with Anthony Graham, BAMPFA Senior Curator, who organized the Berkeley venue of the exhibition.