Ingrid Raphaël

Center for Afrofuturist Studies artist-in-residence, August 2023

Ingrid Raphaël is a filmmaker, educator and multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores image making, oscillations between alienation and belonging, folktale as memory, and dance codes as containers for – and manifestations of — Black-futures-making. 

They co-founded the nomadic microcinema, NO EVIL EYE CINEMA and co-designed its alternative film school FILM FUTURA where they teach Afro-Futurism on Screen. They have also taught film and art workshops with Black Quantum Futurism, Mono No Aware, Eyebeam, Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Young Artist Program.

Their upcoming film SILK imagines a future with server-technology loss, portals, environmental degradation, and two strangers on an unlikely quest for reconciliation; with spiderwebs as metaphors for that possibility. As a documentary filmmaker, they co-directed They Won’t Call It Murder: available on Vimeo’s Shorts Staff Picks, and other short video essays like MOVING BODY, Grief, and An Ode to Cbus, Ohio.

Ingrid’s residency was supported by:
• The Gannett Foundation
• The Ruth Foundation for the Arts
• the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts