EVERY STEP IS A PRAYER
Watch here.
Created by Niki Franco, Houston R. Cypress (Otter Clan), Rad Pereira, LILLETH, Cara Stricker, and our collaborators, ancestors, and guides
Directed by Cara Stricker
Choreographed by LILLETH
Storykeepers - Niki Franco, Houston R. Cypress (Otter Clan)
Embodied Liberatory Dramaturgy by Rad Pereira
Executive Produced & Produced by - Sophia Rothbart
Creative Produced by Jack Pitney
Cinematography by Michael Cambio Fernandez
Original Score by James William Blades
Original Music by Lafawndah
Edited by Travis Moore & Cara Stricker
Nowness Creative Director Bunny Kinney
Nowness Managing Editor Gavin Humphries
Nowness Video Commissioner Katie Metcalfe
Nowness Producer Noor Miah
Nowness Video Editor Harry Bowley
Featuring Niki Franco, Houston R. Cypress (Otter Clan), Arielle François, Eva Martinez, Natanael Leal, Sandy Heyaime, Rayne J. Raney, Rose Simons, Clinton Tazz Harris, Lau Narciso, Lucas Freeman, Tarik Boom Morgan, Amal Rogers, Jessica Freites, Gabrielle Sheerer
Featuring artworks from Superblue Miami's inaugural exhibition, Every Wall is a Door:
Es Devlin, Forest of Us, 2021. Installation view of Every Wall is a Door, Superblue Miami, 2021
teamLab, Massless Clouds Between Sculpture and Life, 2020, Interactive Installation, Sound: teamLab
teamLab, Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
teamLab, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together - Transcending Boundaries, A Whole Year per Hour, 2017, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
James Turrell, AKHU, 2020, © James Turrell"
Featuring Voice Over By Houston R. Cypress (Otter Clan), Betty Osceola (Panther Clan), Niki Franco
Styled by Peri Rosenzweig
Stylist Assistant - Margo Hannah
Stylist Consultant - Juliann McCandless
Stylist Intern - Addie
Makeup Artist - Autumn Suna
Colored by Sean Coleman
Color House Company 3
Color House Producer Matt Moran
Post House Exile
Production Company: Summercamp
Miami Service Company - FILM MIA
Miami Line Producer - Gerardo Lopez
1st AD - Roberto Penalvar
Production Manager - Carolina Acosta Carrero
1st AC - Pedro Guevara
2nd AC - Jesus Garcia
Steadicam Operator - Jorge Bustamante
VTR - Daniel Betancourt
Key Grip - Mauricio Gomez
Set Medic - Chris Corbett
Production Assistant - Armando Yunes
Production Assistant - Armando Yunes
Production Assistant - Andrelis Hernandez
Production Assistant - Carlos Briceno
Production Assistant - Claudio Alfidi
Production Assistant - Alejandro Valladares
Music
Celloist - Jonathan Gibson
Violinist - Oliver Mayo
Saxaphone - Harry Fausing Smith
Susie Tiger - Songs Concerning The Removal Of The Seminole To Oklahoma
Susie Tiger - Treatment of Lumbago/ Song For The Dying / Song For Childbirth / Song For Sick Baby
Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkway Recordings
Catering - Relish Miami
Inspired together by liberation work, Maroonage, Miccosukee symbology, somatic healing, Afro & Indigenous futurism, plant medicine, biomimicry, and holding the contradictions of the urban matrix. Woven together with themes from teamLab, Es Devlin, and James Turrell’s inaugural exhibitions at Superblue Miami, exploring the relationships between our body and the land, nature and technology, the individual and the collective.
Winner of Best Experimental Short - Miami Short Film Festival 2021
Official Selection - Palm Springs International Short Fest 2022
Best Short Film Award - Black Film Festival New Orleans 2023
Remi Winner - 55th Annual Worldfest Houston International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection - Holly Shorts Film Festival 2022
Official Selection - Woodstock Film Festival 2022
The film was co-created in Allapattah, Miami and the Greater Everglades - the traditional homelands of Native nations, including Tequesta, Calusa, Taíno and presently Miccosukee and Seminole.
“Allapattah” means “alligator” in the Miccosukee and Seminole languages, and is home to a vibrant community of African diasporic and migrant people who have built Miami and continue to make this community what it is today. 'Every Step Is a Prayer' launched on NOWNESS 14 July 2021