Christopher Harris is an associate professor of film and video production in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. He makes films and video installations that read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema.
Movies9 2001 HD
In this austere and sorrowful portrait of his hometown, St. Louis, Harris sets his black-and-white 16mm camera loose to wander through the...
Movies9 2001 HD
In this austere and sorrowful portrait of his hometown, St. Louis, Harris sets his black-and-white 16mm camera loose to wander through the...
Movies9 2001 HD
In this austere and sorrowful portrait of his hometown, St. Louis, Harris sets his black-and-white 16mm camera loose to wander through the...
Movies1 2021 HD
Frenzied voices on the Chicago Police Department’s scanner call for squad cars and reprisals during the 2020 uprising in response to the...
Movies1 1970 HD
George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-granted access to his archive and spotlights his...
Movies9 2001 HD
In this austere and sorrowful portrait of his hometown, St. Louis, Harris sets his black-and-white 16mm camera loose to wander through the...
Movies1 2024 HD
A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the...
Movies1 2024 HD
A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the...
Movies1 2024 HD
A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the...
Movies1 2016 HD
A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of...
Movies1 2016 HD
A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of...
Movies1 2016 HD
A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of...
Movies1 2016 HD
A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of...
Movies1 2011 HD
2011, 3 minutes, 16mm double projection, color, silent
Movies1 2010 HD
"Approximates a small child's fantasy world in the dark. In a series of close-ups, the nightlight is transformed into a meditative star-spangled sky....
Movies1 2005 HD
Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era prohibition against black men looking at white women, this hand processed, optically printed amalgam is a...
Movies1 2016 HD
A sunny afternoon on an architecture tour boat in Chicago is haunted by the specter of the European refugee crises as a disembodied narrator recounts...
Movies1 2007 HD
"Florida, 2007. In a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun....
Movies1 2014 HD
A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman...
Movies1 2023 HD
This film uses close focus cinematography of text from commercial house paint samples to suggest a mythology of light and shadow. The audience is...
Movies6 2020 HD
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...
