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AKA

by Garrett Bradley
USA, 2019, 8’17’’
Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
IMAGE CREDITS: courtesy of Lisson Gallery
ov: English; st: Italian
AKA, the first in a trilogy about women’s relationships, focuses on mothers and daughters in mixed-race families or those with varying skin tones. Garrett Bradley’s experimental short arose from conversations with her female protagonists, exploring race, upward mobility, and relationships between white and Black women. The term “color struck” shapes the film’s prismatic effects, contributing to its dream-like atmosphere. These dialogues influenced the film’s choreography and locations, reflecting the visions of its subjects
Garrett Bradley is an American artist, educator, and filmmaker. In 2020, Bradley presented her debut feature-length documentary, Time, which was nominated for more than fifty awards—including an Oscar—and won twenty, including the 2020 Peabody Award and the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition category at that year’s Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to win the award in the history of the festival. Bradley was a 2015 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a recipient of the Prix de Rome (2019), the Arts and Letters Award for Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022), and the Eye Filmmuseum’s Eye Art & Film Prize (2023). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); the Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Arkansas (2021); the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh (2022); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022). Bradley’s recent book Devotion, released in February 2024, was the first in a series of research-led publications on artists by MIT Press and Lisson Gallery.
Selected Filmography
2022 Safe (Excerpt); 2021 Naomi Osaka; 2020 Time; 2019 Aka; America; 2018 The Earth is Humming; 2017 Alone; 2014 Below Dreams