DA FRINGES: Bare, Stained, Mojo: Da Floods | Screening and Conversation with Jeremy Kamal

Jeremy Kamal will be screening his latest short films, Bare and Stained, in addition to his piece exhibited in We Are Here, titled Mojo. Bare and Stained are animated shorts from the world of Mojo; a fictional future where landscapes are shaped by Black culture. Stained depicts the dream sequence of a rebellious tea master named Demetrius. Set in a fictional tea garden where gangs use colored flora to mark territory, the animation portrays Demetrius and his elder as he re-lives the memory of being reprimanded for his fascination with a blue herb; in defiance of the gang to which they belong. In a world where symbiotic relationships with technology enable Black Americans the godlike ability to transform geology, weather, and ecology, Stained is a small glimpse into the intimate life of one of its inhabitants. The piece re-frames gang culture as a landscape phenomenon and re-imagines those affiliated as environmental caretakers and tea makers.

Artist Bio
3D artist and filmmaker Jeremy Kamal creates modern geomyths using animation, sound, and media installation. His narrative environments challenge our understanding of ecology, culture, and technology through a radical juxtaposition of improbable elements. He is a Onassis ONX fellow and was previously an artist resident at the Sundance Institute, NYU ITP, Folly Tree Arboretum, and AFROTECTOPIA. As a freelance motion graphic and VFX artist, he has collaborated on projects for musicians and brands including Marine Serre, The North Face, Gucci, Trippie Redd, Yo Gotti, Sa Babi, and Lil Miquela.

Jeremy is a design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD and a Master of Arts from SCI-Arc’s Fiction and Entertainment program.