2025 (ongoing) Kuoona

Kuoona is a short film that explores rhythm as narrative — a sonic fusion of Gullah polyrhythms, 18th century African American spirituals, southern Black revival hymns, Amapiano, and Afrobeats. Through rhythm a story unfolds mapping out an archive of insistence.

The name Kuoona is a portmanteau of the Gullah word oona—to perceive, to address a group and/or individual —and the Bantu word kuona, meaning to see, to perceive, or to look at.