Home Is Where, in Chicago 2021 [a poem]
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Photo by: Davea Holmes
Note from the Director: Texas Smith
'I Became Birds' helped get me through this last year. It's a cathartic yawp in the face of devolving times; it's a neighbor in these diasporic thoughts. This visual poem is a love letter to the irascible quartet (Home is Where); it's the child of a humble Instagram DM on the morning of their Chicago show: "Hey. Can I film y'all for a comp?" To new friends.
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credits
Directed by. Texas Smith
Associate Produced by. Pavit Gandhi
Featuring. Home is Where