Harar V.A Hall is a queer Black, Jamaican-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist raised in Toronto and currently living, organizing, and creating in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. As a visual artist, poet, and writer I have found both words and images to be compelling methods of storytelling. Their project "Twice Removed" is their first intro into video production as a means of storytelling
Their artistic practice is rooted in an ongoing desire for healing and liberation at an individual and collective level. And so, all their work first draws on their own experiences with identity, love, lust, belonging, happiness, community, and personal storytelling. They endeavour to write and create work that explores these emotions and experiences honestly.
Acknowledgements: CLAYTON BAILEY for helping me bring this project to fruition. SHARETER SANDY-FRASER for the contemporary photographs of Dickson’s Village. EDSON HUGGINS for some of the photographs of Québec City’s hinterland. MATILDA CERONE the director of photography and editor for her diligent professional work. SHING LING LOW for mixing the audio. MIKE DI ANGELO for providing the “The Raintrack” from “SoundBible”.
Harar V.A Hall is a queer Black, Jamaican-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist raised in Toronto and currently living, organizing, and creating in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. As a visual artist, poet, and writer I have found both words and images to be compelling methods of storytelling. Their project "Twice Removed" is their first intro into video production as a means of storytelling
Their artistic practice is rooted in an ongoing desire for healing and liberation at an individual and collective level. And so, all their work first draws on their own experiences with identity, love, lust, belonging, happiness, community, and personal storytelling. They endeavour to write and create work that explores these emotions and experiences honestly.
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