Out of Focus

Out of Focus is an experimental documentary that explores collectivity, belonging, and the reimagining of family within Black queer life. Through filmed interviews, home movies, and archival images, the film constructs an intimate, nonlinear genealogy of queer kinship—one that resists erasure and centers the quiet intimacies of care, joy, and tenderness beyond traditional frameworks. Rooted in Black queer feminist thought and archival intervention, Out of Focus maps the fluid and ever-evolving nature of kinship, honoring those who claim and create space—whether artistic, political, or personal—as an act of love and self-preservation. Blurring the lines between documentary and experimental cinema, the film is a meditation on home and a visual language of resistance.

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Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power

From cultural preservation to political resistance, this block of films showcase the ways people organize, resist oppression, and work toward change.