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)