Still Life

Diana Ali Chire

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Diana Chire is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. Born in Djibouti, raised in London, Diana works in a variety of traditional and non- traditional media (performance, photo-text collage, video installation, sculpture among them). Her work has been featured in galleries from New York to Berlin and profiled in “W”, “I-D”, “Dazed and Confused”. Her own publication, “She-Zine” features cutting-edge contributions from leading female artists. Her award-winning short film, “A Living Sculpture” was shot in London and is currently making rounds on the festival circuit. Diana’s work dissects female sexuality and racial identity in a raw and unflinching way that refuses to apologize for its existence. She seeks to expand the ideas around what the Black female diaspora can contain.

Still Life
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2021

Merging the historical paintings of the past, with the whisperings of exclusion of what could be modern day scenarios (yet realistically a repetition of history eating itself). A ode to the black woman and her voice.

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Why are we ignoring the Black woman in the painting? A woman barley identified in the placard below. A woman so often used as a prop. A thing to be forgotten. When I was in art school, black muses were never discussed. They
had no history worth remembering, no story worth telling. Today, we see them on museum walls and galleries – their faces famous yet invisible. With each portrait I have created an account for these women. Finally giving them a voice.

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Merging the historical paintings of the past, with the whisperings of exclusion of what could be modern day scenarios (yet realistically a repetition of history eating itself). A ode to the black woman and her voice.

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Duration: 4 min.

Country: United States of America (USA)

Language: English, French

Year: 2021

Genre: Experimental, Fiction (Drama)

Topic: African, Art, Black Identity, Colonialism, Identity, Philosophy, Society, Women

Cast & Crew

Director: Diana Ali Chire

Producer: Diana Ali Chire

Writer: Diana Ali Chire

Cinematographer: Tehillah De Castro

Editor: Spencer Patzman

Actors: Olympia's Laure - Tai Nelson Lady Holding an Orange Blossom - Raven McCall Portrait of Madeline - Nyenye Munyati Lady holding Peonies - Shanel Moore

Festivals & Awards

2022

Toronto Black Film Festival

Cinema Sisters International Film Festival (CSIFF)

Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, MS

Poppy Jasper International Film Festival

Riga 2annas International Short Film Festival

Maryland Film Festival

Seattle Black Film Festival

Trֳés Court International Film Festival

The Fine Arts Film Festival

Breakthroughs Film Festival

Gimli International Film Festival

Lakefront Film Festival

Indie Memphis Film Festival

Urbanworld Film Festival

Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin

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