Artists in residence > 2022-2023
Ingrid Raphaël
Born from Cameroonian, Togolese-German and Moroccan-French parents, Ingrid Raphaël makes art that is heavily influenced by the ways they relate to migration and colonialism. They draw from their nomadic migrations to understand, situate and contextualize their work as multidimensional, which is often described as personal, intimate, transfixing, collaborative and reflective.
Raphaël has been productive and recognized across disciplines.
Wexner Center Film & Video Resident, August 2020
PocoAPoco Resident & Fellow, September 2022
They have earned a BA from The Ohio State University, Columbus, and an AA from Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland. They also have a Film Futura certificate from the Alternative Film School.
Film Projects
Co-founder and curator, No Evil Eye Microcinema, 2019
Operations manager, New Negress Film Society, 2019–2020
Afronauts release coordinator, Nuotama Bodomo: MOTHERTONGUE, 2019
Work
Raphaël has created and conceived of numerous projects and contributed to myriad exhibitions.
Exhibitions
They Won’t Call It Murder (short doc), co-director, sound and photography, Field of Vision, 2021
AN ODE TO CBUS, OHIO (short doc), Cinespeak, 2021
Moving Body of Water (short fiction), director, director of photography and editor, Anthology Film Archives, 2019
Screenings
Sheffield Documentary Festival
BAM Cinemafest
Camden Film Festival
Unorthodocs Film Festival
AFI Film Festival
DOCNYC Film Festival
Cinematters NY: Social Justice Festival
Double Exposure Film Festival
Performance
Dancer, Quaternion Performance for artist Caitlin Cherry, Pace Gallery, New York, New York, 2021
Publication
Webs of Care: interview
Are.na Annual, 2021
Webs of Care: substack
They are also a seasoned creative educator.
Dreamcasting the Cinescape: lecturer (adults), FILM FUTURA film school, 2021
Documentary instructor (teens), Education Video Center, 2020
Filmmaking instructor (teens), Harlem School for the Arts, 2019–2020
Super 8mm co-instructor (adults), MONO NO AWARE, 2019 and 2020
Lead teaching artist, Young Artist Program, 2020–present
Museum educator, Bronx Museum Teen Council, 2019–2021
Workshop teaching artist, Digital Day Camp @ EYEBEAM
Webs of Care, 2020
Flipping the Script, 2019
Workshop instructor, POWRPLNT: POWER UP, 2020
Workshop instructor, Black Quantum Futurism: Black Womxn Time Cam, 2020
Youth literary educator, Public Library, 2018–2019
Refugee youth educator, Refugee & Immigrant Services, 2017–2018
Guest lecturer: Immigrant Stories, The Ohio State University, 2017
SILK (film in development)
Sarlum, with no memory of their past, appears on the shores of the Schuylkill river with a fishing rod that belongs to Omossa’s mom who vanished during the catastrophic floods that swept most coastal cities years ago. Together, Omossa and Sarlum unlock portals that present an opportunity for memory and environmental repair.
Ingrid directed, wrote, and shot the teaser for the feature film and will be using part of their residency developing the script, feature, and the exhibition of its teaser.
Still from SILK teaser with actors Vernon Jordan III and Katrina Hall
SILK (film in development)
Sarlum, with no memory of their past, appears on the shores of the Schuylkill river with a fishing rod that belongs to Omossa’s mom who vanished during the catastrophic floods that swept most coastal cities years ago. Together, Omossa and Sarlum unlock portals that present an opportunity for memory and environmental repair.
Ingrid directed, wrote, and shot the teaser for the feature film and will be using part of their residency developing the script, feature, and the exhibition of its teaser.
Still from SILK teaser with actors Aja Staten and Carmel Brown
CACAO
Carved in Oaxaca, Mexico the cacao presents an emblem and product of land stewardship, ritual symbolism, and a product of sustenance.
Using linework to commemorate cacao, Ingrid will be developing pieces of linework as a guide for which they highlight the ways in which they experience alien-ship: the act of observing ‘place’ and defining ‘home’; inspired by their resident alien status (and experience) in the united states and belonging nowhere yet everywhere.
Cacao print accompanied with its rubber carving.
![ANTHOLOGY OF [enter city name]
When searching “New Orleans” on google search, only photos of the French Quarter and Hurricane Katrina appear. Puzzled by this one-sided depiction of the city that Ingrid had visited, they are developing a video-wor](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c494cb8f6c3b15c3694993/ac2eed71-066d-4df6-8614-5fbf8569c2f6/CITIES-NOLA.STILL.png)
ANTHOLOGY OF [enter city name]
When searching “New Orleans” on google search, only photos of the French Quarter and Hurricane Katrina appear. Puzzled by this one-sided depiction of the city that Ingrid had visited, they are developing a video-work using open-access photography and videos found primarily on the internet to create a collage video of the city. By replicating the process of search engines by using internet-only images, Ingrid aims to critique what images search engines, algorithms, and social media companies use to promote their interest– which is often depicted as over simplistic as opposed to multi-layered.
Ingrid will be using their residency to deepen this process of making, reconstructing a narrative, by collaging memories, artifacts, and histories – using film, fiber, artifacts, and objects in sculptures to achieve this.
A still from an in-progress film about New Orleans that includes an archival photograph of people on a boat paired with a digital photograph taken by myself of a boat on the same river years later.
SUN DANCES
A meditative song and a lyrical repetition of movements accompanies the unwavering tropical plants’ movements. Ingrid will be developing new choreographic pieces and editing multi-channel videos of their choreography and performances with landscape as the protagonist and movement as its accompaniment.