Chicago, Illinois

Using the iPhone 17 Pro as their primary tool, artists crafted short films that treat memory not as nostalgia, but as a technology of survival, resistance, and possibility. Across two weeks, creators were challenged to excavate personal archives, ancestral wisdoms, and collective histories—transforming the fragments of the past into pathways toward liberation, connection, and renewed futures.

This edition spotlights black creatives crafting regionally rooted narratives exploring healing through remembrance. They explored the restorative, radical, and imaginative power of recalling what we’ve been taught to forget.