About this Event
You're Going to Die Presents: Longing Suite
Longing Suite, Nicolás Grandi & Lata Mani, HD, 30 mins, 2025
Longing Suite is a meditative, kaleidoscopic videopoem that traces the arc of a heart-mind-body awakening to the Feminine Divine and the sacred in all that exists. Grandi and Mani build on a cycle of poems written by Mani in the 1990s in context of an unexpected spiritual initiation following a head injury. The film draws aesthetic inspiration from the dynamics of the spiritual journey and offers an evocative visual and sensorial experience at once individual and universal.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1129320503
Hosted by Ned Buskirk
at The New Parkway Theater
474 24th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
https://www.thenewparkway.com/
Doors @ Noon
Support more with ticket tiers; you choose the amount.
The tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.
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Longing Suite, Nicolás Grandi & Lata Mani, HD, 30 mins, 2025
Longing Suite is a meditative, kaleidoscopic videopoem that traces the arc of a heart-mind-body awakening to the Feminine Divine and the sacred in all that exists. Grandi and Mani build on a cycle of poems written by Mani in the 1990s in context of an unexpected spiritual initiation following a head injury. The film draws aesthetic inspiration from the dynamics of the spiritual journey and offers an evocative visual and sensorial experience at once individual and universal.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1129320503
Lata Mani is an Oakland based feminist historian, cultural critic, contemplative writer & filmmaker. She has published on a broad range of issues, from feminism and colonialism, to illness, spiritual philosophy and contemporary politics.
Nicolás Grandi is a Buenos Aires based filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist and educator. This is their seventh collaboration.
More at https://www.latamani.com/films
“The textured weave of sound and image in Longing Suite leads us to a place that feels like spaciousness and intimacy all at once…. Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani’s hauntingly powerful film is both sacred arc and sensorium; pilgrimage and homecoming.”
- Arundhathi Subramaniam, poet & author of The Gallery of Upside Down Women and Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
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You're Going to Die [YG2D] is a 501(c)3 nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality, with a free creatively conscious mortality podcast, monthly sell-out live open mics, concerts, & workshops facilitating creatively conscious mortality space for community, a free online grief space offered every week, an elderhood program intergrating senior citizen wisdom into our general communal experience, a hospice program sending musicians to patients' bedsides, Pr*son programming faciliating a suicide prevention group and hosting creatively connecting open mic space and workshops with community in San Quentin & working with community impacted by the Pr*son system [inside & out], and cancer patient workshops & bedside visits for healing through creative writing. - https://www.yg2d.com/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland, United States
USD 23.18 to USD 100.00
