Movement Song 2025 (96 mins)

Fiction-Documentary Film by Mayis Rukel and Victoria McKenzie

Noa (portrayed by Victoria McKenzie) is a researcher, an artist, a collector of stories as well as an intuitive practitioner of re-storying; honing methods of crafting homespace on earth against systemic odds. She moves with her Caribbean lineage, having already moved to many different places, and is also moving with a recently heightened presence of grief. She is heartbroken. Through her friend Jules (portrayed by Jules Davis-Dufayard), a mysterious glass hammer connects her to Saffron (portrayed by Sabrina Miller); a poet, writer, editor and a trusted protector of rare objects.

Noa and Saffron develop deep intimacy and move through conflict among and with their friends. Their passion, grief and joy instigates movement as their love builds resilience.

Noa's heartbreak takes her to Saint Paul-de-Vence in southern France, in the footsteps of James Baldwin whose unprocessed grief took him there in 1971 to spend the last 16 years of his life in that small village. Traces of an exile or a final home can be difficult to see on the surface level due to the erasure of Black domesticity. Who is allowed to put down roots, and where? Whose home is only temporarily tolerated? Whose tangible legacies are seen worthy of protection? What makes an enduring homespace?

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1063236369