Black Ibis
Experimental
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.
DIRECTED BY
Black Speaks Back
Social Media
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Emma-Lee Amponsah (PhD) is a creative producer, writer, thinker, and researcher of culture and media. Her work focuses on themes including Blackness, memory, technology, and ontology. As a founding member of the Belgo-Dutch grassroots platform and media collective Black Speaks Back (BsB), Amponsah has been involved in various impactful audiovisual projects exploring Blackness in Belgium and The Netherlands. Amponsah was the initiator and producer of the world’s first Afrofuturistic musical EUphoria (2028). Black Ibis (2024) marks her directorial debut.