Kearra Amaya Gopee

A braided essay that asks participants about their relationships to concepts of revenge and justice. How can song conjure the sublime, necessary, and oft resisted work of deconstruction?

an excision spell (2020) is an intra-communal call to arms and self-determination in the face of white supremacist violence.

Kearra Amaya Gopee’s docu-fictional short Ca(r)milla considers the revisionist potential that lies within folkloric myth. For Gopee, myth is a storytelling mechanism teeming with possibility––it’s an oratory approach that invites us to reimagine our histories and rewrite our lineages in the face of coloniality. In Ca(r)milla, Gopee annotates the parable of the soucouyant, a blood-craving, vampiric figure typically rendered as an undesirable older woman in Trinidadian legends. https://thekitchen.org/on-screen/ca-r-milla/

A braided essay that asks participants about their relationships to concepts of revenge and justice. How can song conjure the sublime, necessary, and oft resisted work of deconstruction?

an excision spell (2020) is an intra-communal call to arms and self-determination in the face of white supremacist violence.

Kearra Amaya Gopee’s docu-fictional short Ca(r)milla considers the revisionist potential that lies within folkloric myth. For Gopee, myth is a storytelling mechanism teeming with possibility––it’s an oratory approach that invites us to reimagine our histories and rewrite our lineages in the face of coloniality. In Ca(r)milla, Gopee annotates the parable of the soucouyant, a blood-craving, vampiric figure typically rendered as an undesirable older woman in Trinidadian legends. https://thekitchen.org/on-screen/ca-r-milla/