The Fire This Time (2022)

Commissioned by Field of Vision, The Fire This Time is a short documentary film that takes a kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence. An archive constantly haunted by its possible collapse. Featuring the voices of science journalist Sonia Shah, poet and literary scholar Anjuli Raza Kolb, medical anthropologist Christos Lynteris, epidemiologist Keiji Fukuda, economist William A. Darity Jr., and historians Nayan Shah, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nancy Tomes, with closing notes from literary scholar Priscilla Wald and legal scholar Patricia J. Williams.