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Boyant
Boyant
Super-8 film
5 min
2008

Synopsis
A performance with handmade life preservers reflects on athletic iconography, buoyancy, and the symbolic relationship between Black bodies and water.

Credits
Performance, production design: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Cinematography: Romulo Alejandro
Editing: Romulo Alejandro
Sound design: Raymond Lee

Selected Screenings
• Studio Museum in Harlem, 30 Seconds Off an Inch (2010)
• Criterion Channel program (2020–2022)
• Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival retrospective (2022)
• Batalha Cinema retrospective, Porto (2025)