Dub Platforms

Led by a team of humanities and design faculty at SCI-Arc, and in partnership with a multi-generational group of culture bearers, business owners, and artists of Leimert Park, Dub Platforms is a showcase of storytelling and world building. Sponsored by SCI-Arc and a grant from California Humanities, several intergenerational Leimert Park community members worked with faculty Thabisile Griffin and Kordae Henry, along with an arsenal of local filmmakers and artists to craft narrative visions of Leimert. The films created touch on the region's history, present, and future - canvassing the social and cultural dynamics informing this urban jewel of black life. Matthew Au and Mira Henry of Current Interests and SCI-Arc worked with the filmmakers to develop an apparatus to stage these voices. The result is a quilted screen and seating platform, which together, facilitate further acts of social gathering already present in the pedestrian driven core of the neighborhood.

Dub Platforms creates a multi-temporal site analysis of Leimert Park and its inhabitants through storytelling and will culminate with an outdoor community film screening in the neighborhood. The films produced by the fellows will be showcased alongside films made by a curated list of experimental storytellers. Following the neighborhood event, the project will be exhibited in SCI-Arc’s Kappe Library followed by a reception that will honor the efforts and creativity of the two-year long collaboration.

Project Team

Film Fellows:
Barbara Barnett, Qwenga, Asara Aibangbee, Ava Lightwood

Community Collaborators:
Neighbors Skate Shop and Ben Caldwell

Supporting Mentors & Film Contributors:
Tweaks, Jamil Baldwin, Russell C Hamilton, Jackson Kroopf, Francis Agyapong

SCI-Arc:
Matthew Au, Kai Daniels, Thabisile Griffin, Mira Henry, Kordae Henry, Jillian Leedy