Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year (2022)

& so Lunar New Year is a durational effort, a sequence of 4 digital, 13 analog vertically oriented portraits, all made handheld with found and available light, presented in order of exposures taken. The series (swallows hard, accepts its truth) is a record in collaboration with those that allowed me to be in space with them, creating quiet encounters in the polyphonic city. Not all is pictured, not all are pictured, just what & who was made available through any number of very specific & amorphous conditions & agreements on this day. A study of the transformative power of light moving through space, & a sincere awe in the ability to render that still, & (as the Meshell Ndegeocello song says) yet it moves, offering the cinema of the everyday, offering description as narrative, operating in the multisensory—text, image, voice, my primary mediums, previously presented in the book, now in cinema, still the book: all efforts in dedicated sequencing.

Director: S*an D. Henry-Smith

Casts

	Ryan Clarke as Self
	Justin Allen as Self
	Slant Rhyme as Self
	Elliott Jerome Brown as Self
	Jr as Self
	Jasmine Lee as Self
	Daniel Sadiel Peña as Self
	S*an D. Henry-Smith as Self
	Shakira Evans as Self
	Kia Damon as Self
	Latasha N. Nevada Diggs as Self
	Arjun Ram Srivatsa as Self
	Lucy Siyao Liu as Self

Crew