Multi-Screening: The Conversation, Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village

The Conversation

James and Nia, a heterosexual married couple have a discussion about what sparked their love affair, confront their conflicting thoughts about having children and the future of their relationship. However, Nia has a secret to reveal.

Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village

"Blight is the flood used to drown Black communities." It isn't an accident, its strategic economic violence by policy. Community activists and organizers work diligently to counter the disinvestment, devaluation and displacement of Baltimore's Black communities.

Dis-placia: Vacants in the Village is the third part of Fight Blight Bmore's series to increase awareness about blight in Baltimore. It builds on part I, a transmedia exhibition, and part II a community-based hack-a-thon to create a feature-length documentary film that exposes what blight is, how it came into being, what must be done to address it and how the community is doing its part to solve the problem.

Dis-placia delivers an Afrofuturist critique of local policy, real estate

development, and business engagement's impact on community development efforts in Baltimore.