An Evening of Film & Sound

September 25, 2025 | 7:00pm TO 9:00pm

Performance

Screening

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Occidental College Campus, Collins House Lawn

Join us under a late September evening sky for a film screening and DJ set inspired by and connected to our current exhibition Flesh of the Forest. The program will begin with dream hampton's poetic short film Freshwater, a meditation on her disappearing Black city, flooded basements, and the fluid nature of memory; followed by the kinetic Afrofuturism of the hybrid short film/documentary Zaïre Space Program: Act II from the collective Moonshine and a DJ set by the film's collaborators Hervé "Coltan" Kalongo, Adam "Foreigner" Cooper, and Farrah "San Farafina" Sintimé. "This is Africa as thought through the lens of Africans. It's a cultural awakening," says Moonshine's co-founder Kalongo. "Africa is in a race with itself. We find beauty in the things we do ourselves, something that has been taken away from us for a long time."

EVENT INFO

This event has lawn seating; please bring a blanket to sit on, or a low chair for comfort.
Parking will be available in the main Collins House (Admissions) parking lot accessed from Campus Road. Please follow parking signs.

color video still from Zaïre Space Program: Act II

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

dream hampton

Moonshine

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. For three decades her essays and cultural criticism helped shape a generation. Her most recent works include the award winning short film “Freshwater” (NYT OpDocs/PBS, 2023) and “Ladies First” (Netflix, 2023). In 2019 she was showrunner and Executive Producer of the Emmy nominated docuseries, "Surviving R. Kelly" (Netflix), which broke ratings records and earned her a Peabody Award. That year she was named one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world.

Photo credit: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

Depending on whom you ask, the esoteric effects of lunar cycles can be wide-ranging: good fortune, human fertility, ocean tides, werewolf prevalence and loss of sanity among them. For the like-minded musicians, DJs, dancers and visual artists who make up the Moonshine collective, the planetary satellite above all inspires their eponymous monthly event, driven by an inclusive ethos and a shared love for experimentations in dance culture.

Since its founding in 2014, Moonshine has carved out an enviable niche in Montréal’s nightlife milieu by celebrating a wide range of fledgling local talents, championing Afro-futuristic, bass-heavy, electro-funk sounds, and bringing together communities that wouldn’t necessarily cross paths otherwise. As the name indicates, the lunar-based Moonshine recipe has the collective throw an all-night, sensory-soaked party on the Saturday after every full moon in ever-shifting, unpredictable locations across the city, always strictly disclosed via text messages. With fresh cuts supplied by resident DJs Pierre Kwenders, Vanyfox, San Farafina, and AKantu, visual installations and a slew of live musicians and performers that have included Kaytranada, Dâm-Funk, Le1f, Venus X, Uproot Andy, Bambii and Branko, the parties have become a staple of the after-hours scene, in Canada and abroad, with appearances in NYC, LA, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Lisboa, London, Barcelona and Santiago just to name a few.