Screening: Speakn' Trane
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, Dec 12, 2025
6P (Doors open)
Free Community Screening
Filmmaker in person. Filmmakers in person. Both writer and director will be in attendance.
Speakn' Trane (22 mins)
Anyabwile Love .writer/producer, Shahkeem Williams .director
Speakn’ Trane is a visual conversation about the generative practice of mediation and the creative potential in a spiritual tradition informed by communion with nature. 16mm film was employed to cultivate an immersive aesthetic language and revisualize archival footage’s texture and tonality, which framed the worldview and cosmologies of Black musical masters of the early to mid-1960s.
The work centers on a Philadelphia jazz musician preparing to unveil his groundbreaking album. The audience is invited to peer into his navigation of a revealing interview that delves into the innovative rhythms, raw emotions, and profound inspirations behind his transformative musical odyssey, which plans to challenge conventions and set a new standard for the genre.
Harkening to the Akan principles of Sankofa, the musician returns to his home of Philadelphia to reclaim lost parts of himself and complete his circle of evolution.
About Filmmaker
Philadelphia native Anyabwile Love received his Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Temple University, May 2014. His most recent film projects include the short narratives, The Spaces In Between (writer and director) and Speakn’ Trane (writer, d. Shahkeem Williams). His current projects include the commissioned stage play, Dear Listener, and an adapted narrative short, The Invited (writer and director). He has received several funding awards for his current and past writing and filmmaking projects. Anyabwile is the founder and creator of The John Coltrane Symposium and former owner of Bailey Street Books. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies and as Associate Editor for the literary journal A Gathering Together, and is a tenured Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies at Community College of Philadelphia.
About the BlackMaria Microcinema
The BlackMaria is a 40-seat brick-and-mortar space in San Francisco dedicated to cinema as study, discourse, and disruption. At its core is a cinema lens framework rooted in decolonization and abstract thinking, utilizing RDA (Rooted in Decolonization and Abstract Thinking).
Venue Details:
Burial Clay Theater
The African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
762 Fulton St
San Francisco
Details:
- Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
- Doors at 6:00 PM
- Screening at 6:30 PM
- Tickets: Free admission
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
African American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States
