What are the ways that art can become a space to intentionally practice the futures that we long for?

How can collaboration create alternative spaces for contesting power and advocate for new forms of relation?

How can collective imagining be used to assemble individuals for the purposes of dreaming, healing and resistance?

Who can research? And why is it that those to whom research can be so transformative, are not part of these processes, and are in fact actively excluded?

"It’s a way of meditation.

Feel yourself in the middle of the sea in the boat, trying everything. You can be everywhere but you are trying to reach the land, trying to be free.

Struggling to reach the land, this film is like a stepping stone – to get somewhere, do something, to move, to step up, to find myself in a group, to be given a chance to talk, the group propelling me towards freedom, make my business, make my camera, do something with myself.

I’m always looking at what’s behind, I’m always scared they are coming for me today

In the film how do we show the difficult parts but also the light – light and shadow.

This project, this film is about - how to be somewhere one day, how to tell the truth, this is not the end, we are in this situation but this is not the end. It is a stepping stone or scaffold to the place where you want to be free."

—Everything Worthwhile is Done With Other People, Noma, 2019