M. Asli Dukan

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M. Asli Dukan
Born
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, visual artist
Years active1999–present
Known forGenre of speculative fiction/afrofuturism

M. Asli Dukan is an American independent media producer, filmmaker and visual artist based in Philadelphia working with themes of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Early life

M. Asli Dukan was born in Newark, New Jersey and has spent most her life living in New York City [5] , where her Caribbean family immigrated to in the early 20th century. Dukan credits her family and childhood for influencing her focus on merging the Black radical tradition in her speculative fiction films and visual art. [3] [6]

Education

M. Asli Dukan has a Media and Communication Arts Master of Fine Arts from the City College of New York awarded in 1999 and a film production Bachelor of Arts from New Jersey City University in 1997. Filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira was one of her professors.

Career

Dukan is faculty at the Community College of Philadelphia. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania [7] , the University of the Arts and at the City College of New York.

Dukan says she "embraces the futuristic, fantastic and imaginary genres of speculative fiction (SF) as a way to explore the possibilities of social transformation in society." [1] [8] She has written, produced and directed several short SF films that have screened in film festivals across the country, the Newark International Film Festival, the ImageNation Film and Music Festival, the Langston Hughes Film Festival and the Blackstar Film Festival. [7] [9] [10] [11] She has contributed to a scholarly edited volume about Afrofuturism and its trends in multiple media. [4] She founded Mizan Media Productions, a multimedia company that centers Afro-diasporic fiction and non-fiction narratives, in 2000. [12] Through her production company she has directed and produced short speculative fiction films, as well as videos for indie artists and arts organizations. [12]

The "Resistance Time Portal," her mixed-media, augmented-reality installation centered on Black radicalism in a futuristic narrative, made its debut in the Distance≠Time exhibition [13] [14] at the Icebox Project Space, a contemporary arts and culture venue in Philadelphia. [15] [16]

In 2018 Dukan was a judge for the Glyph Comic Awards. [17]

Filmography

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 Whitson, Roger (2016-12-01). Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories. Routledge. ISBN   9781317509103.
  2. ↑ Bacchilega, Cristina (2013-11-01). Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder. Wayne State University Press. ISBN   9780814339282.
  3. 1 2 3 Olafare, Charles (2016-05-05). "Science Fiction Isn't Just For White Nerds, It's For Black Nerds Too". Vice. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  4. 1 2 Dukan, M. Asli; Wildseeds, Kara (2019). Gunkel, Henriette; Lynch (eds.). "An Afrofuturist time capsule: one point in space-time in the collective consciousness of black speculation" in We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imaginations, Fragments, and Diffractions. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript. ISBN   9783837646016.
  5. 1 2 Derakhshani, Tirdad (2 August 2017). "BlackStar Film Festival celebrates filmmakers of color". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. ↑ Rao, Sameer (2018-09-07). "'Breaking' Presents: M. Asli Dukan, a Sci-Fi Filmmaker Imagining the Future of Resistance". ColorLines. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  7. 1 2 Reyes, Juliana Feliciano (August 2018). "Meet the team that created a dystopian West Philadelphia film where black folks rise up to fight police brutality". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. ↑ "M. Asli Dukan". Leeway Foundation. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  9. 1 2 Times, Birmingham (2017-08-10). "BlackStar Film Festival highlights cinema of resistance". The Birmingham Times. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  10. ↑ Kinney, Jen. "Things to Do: Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream". WHYY. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  11. ↑ Obenson, Tambay A. (2015-10-12). "From Book to Film: Now Is a Good Time to Adapt Dr. Ronald Mallet's 'The Time Traveler'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  12. 1 2 Eregbu, Alexandria (2016). "BLACK OBJECT / WHITE SMOKE". Obsidian. 42: 255, 271. ProQuest   1935386693 – via Literature Online.
  13. ↑ "Distance ≠ Time". Icebox Project Space. 2017-09-06. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  14. ↑ "Distance ≠ Time". Facebook. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  15. ↑ "CRANE ARTS – A Community of Art & Culture in Philadelphia – Contemporary Arts and Culture Venue in Philadelphia" . Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  16. ↑ "Undergraduate Fine Arts | PennDesign". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  17. ↑ "2018 GLYPH AWARDS Nominees". Newsarama. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  18. ↑ TheGrio (2013-06-29). "And still sci-fi's Octavia E. Butler rises: A graphic adaptation. A literary society. Is a 'Kindred' movie next?". theGrio. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  19. ↑ Sefton, Dru; Editor, Senior (21 July 2016). "A guide to organizations bringing diversity to public media". Current. Retrieved 2019-04-08.{{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
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