Private Project

We weep to the sound of supernovas

An afrofuturist embodiment of ancestral tears

  • Sara Mychkine
    Director
  • Sara Mychkine
    Writer
  • Sara Mychkine
    Key Cast
  • Igor Egholm
    Music composer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Nous pleurons au son des supernovas
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 7, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    France, Tunisia
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sara Mychkine

Sara Mychkine is a poet, arifa and independent eco*afrofeminist, queer and decolonialx researcher.
Author of two poetry collections La plaie de l'aube (Blast, 2024) and L'éthé (Frison-Roche Belles Lettres, 2022) and a first novel De minuit à minuit (Le Bruit du Monde, 2023), published in various magazines (CENSORED, DÉBRIDÉ, DO-Kre-I-S, DUNE MAGAZINE...), she*they deploys incandescent languages where visions, lyannaj and vanishing lines take root as a fusion of breaches and cosmogonies.
Her work weaves writing, performance, collage and video, like open doors to the sensory exploration of memories-in-relation, the living trace of struggles and the matrix movements of dreams.
She*they was a member of the AFRIKADAA collective and curated the reading room of the symposium Re-Building the future envisioned by the Chichas de la pensée at Jaou Tunis 2024: We decided to remain human.

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