View here: https://films-for-isolation.persona.co/ Featuring Short Films by Rikkí Wright, Clifford Prince King, Sydney Canty and Alima Lee, curated by Alima Lee "Ever since society’s respective shut down, I have been constantly reminded of the importance of community. Our presence is vital and this series is a representation of that notion. Films for isolation includes time-based works of four Black queer artists and their exploration of the self as it is perceived internally. Investigation themes of visibility and home, every piece aims to bring us all closer to the source; remembering what truly matters. “ –Alima Lee Week 2: Clifford Prince King Clifford Prince King’s work, the solemn, reflective “Growing Each Day,” is a foray into a necessary intimacy. Known for his fuzzy, bright, soft yellowed warmth in photos, King intentionally makes the intimidating supple. Shots of black men, sweetly, loving each other, close interview style musical performance, and cozy under the sheets sexiness, accompany a narrative about a disease, it grows silently, worsening slowly and then all at once, but human, if not familial, nonetheless – the intimacy of having this disease and sharing this disease, of sharing communion in spite of and through it. This video asks significant questions, and poses necessary reminders, what does intimacy look like when caretaking? What sort of intimacy do we find in sickness? How must we be intimate with those who are surviving, what does that intimacy of having seen the contours of this survival produce within the viewer? What must we now hold, now that we’ve been allowed to be so close? (words by Mandy Harris Williams)