NO EVIL EYE CINEMA
Born out of two cinephiles in the midwest, NO EVIL EYE CINEMA is a nomadic micro-cinema that aims to redefine the creative and social parameters of film scene(s).
Since our launch in May 2019, we’ve been invited to engage in a variety of unique spaces and places including institutions, film festivals, underground theaters, and DIY organizations around the country and developed the well-attended online film school FILM FUTURA with over 400+ international student body.
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Since our launch in May 2019, we’ve been invited to engage in a variety of unique spaces and places including institutions, film festivals, underground theaters, and DIY organizations around the country and developed the well-attended online film school FILM FUTURA with over 400+ international student body.
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Films
(in development)
Shortlisted Creative Capital 2025
Recipient of Independence Public Media Foundation 2023
Screened at Confluence Film Festival, Ten.01 Local Shorts, Billion Oysters Project
2024
A look at accountability and grief through scorpions shedding.
2025
A meditation on underwater life featuring oysters, shells, and Black folks.
Screened at Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, BAMCineFest, Camden International Film Festival, Unorthodocs Film Festival, DOC NYC, AFI Film Festival, Double Exposure Film Festival
Documentary
Field of Vision
2021
Chosen as a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick, They Won’t Call It Murder chronicles the stories of four families in Columbus, Ohio who navigate the city’s container for violence.
2019
A personal essay on making peace with a city’s cradling, mirrors, and exit.
[watch the film]
Experimental
2019
Filmed during the course of 24 hours across Harlem & Brooklyn, NY.
Developed, Edited & Scanned at Mono No Aware
[watch the film]
2020
Using found footage on the internet, a meditation on grief.
cinéSPEAK and Free Library, Philadelphia
2024
Curated two short films:
I Am Somebody by Madeline Simpson
Fannie’s Film by Fronza Woods
in honor of domestic and careworkers depicted in film by women directors that the Free Library purchased for library-card holders to be able to experience.
Audience members included, unintentionally, folks who are part of the unions represented in Madeline Simpson’s film. A sweet surprise made way for an amazing post-conversation.
Teachings (more in cv)
Eyebeam, New York City
2019
A week-long course on digital archives, representation in media and the task to make films out of found footage & media on the internet.
[archived syllabus]
University of the Arts & Arcadia University, Philadelphia
2024 & 2025
Semester-long production and theory courses to undergraduates with field trips, live-taping, music video, experimental film showcases and field trips to screenings locally.
Regards Noirs, Montréal
2024
An original NO EVIL EYE CINEMA workshop on distilling documentary and experimental films by Black directors who shape memory through archival modes: oral storytelling, non-linear structures, archival media & carving the choreography in scenes and participants’ works.
a big thank you to Regards Noirs team
Vera List Center, New York City
2022
A visual & manifesto-making workshop on the poetics lessons and embodiments of non-linear time for Black Quantum Futurism’s Time Unconference project.
[check out the unconference]
Online
2020
A popular workshop on defining care interpersonally, in community, and individually provided at various organizations and retired online.
The first iteration’s participants were featured in an interview about their process and definitions of care.
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NSISIM
Vox Populi, Philadelphia
2024
A soft-launch of NSISIM Studio’s workshop offerings, participants wove on small looms their relationship with time & identified their own units of time.
Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Iowa City
2023
As a resident at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, this workshop was offered to community in partnership with PS1’s community garden where we built relationships to plants and crafted stories.
A process inspired by the project I developed during the residency: the in-development narrative, SILK, and NSISIM Studio.
[support Center for Afrofuturist Studies & Ps1’s work]
NSISIM, Online
2025
Courses on the poetic and liberatory lessons of Weaving, Nature and Time as part of NSISIM Studio’s vol i of offerings.
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People’s Media Record, Online & Philadelphia
2024 & 2025
Offered to the youth-cohort and members, this two-part workshop led folks through ways of leading archival research in their projects.
Film Futura/NO EVIL EYE CINEMA, Online
2023
A study of films that approach afro-futurism in their storytelling and genre with the exploration of screenwriting and workshopping film ideas.
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Publications
Mural Arts, People’s City Budget
Philadelphia
2024
Through a participatory design and research process, public-transit riders provided insights on what they would dream of for a healthy, well-funded, transit system. These findings were consolidated in zines and pamphlets leading to a public workshop.
NSISIM
2024
Two publications with poetic renderings of stories, poetry, imagery, and history with reflective questions: unbinded to offer readers the possibility to re-arrange the order or plae the fold-out pages as posters.
design by NSISIM Studio
words by Ingrid Raphaël
sold solely at in-person events for the moment
Water, Memory, Ephemera & Photography Archives, Indigenous Objects Restitution, Weaving, Internet, Non-Linear Time, Nature, Shells, Fiber, Accessible Education, Poetics, Blackness, Hair Traditions, Community Building, Education, Third Wave Cinema, Immigration, African legacies, Poetic Code, Exhibition Design, Curatorial Praxis & Design, Product Development, Furniture Design, Speculative Fiction.
They are an award-winning filmmaker, the co-founder of NO EVIL EYE CINEMA and founder of NSISIM Studio: a slow burn study of ecological embodiment.
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Creative Capital
for SILK
2025
Residency
at People’s City Budget
with Mural Arts
2024
Fellowship
at Netflix Career Lab
with Transgender Film Center
2024
Grant Award
at Independence Public Media Foundation
for development of SILK
2023
Residency
at Center for Afrofuturist Studies
for development of SILK & NSISIM Studio
2023
Residency
at iLab Studio
with University of the Arts
2023
Residency
at PocoaPoco
2022
Grant Award
at Illuminate the Arts Grant
2022
Finalist
at SIMA Awards
for They Won’t Call It Murder
2021
Award
at Vimeo Staff Pitcks
for They Won’t Call It Murder
2021
Shortlist Award
DOC NYC
for They Won’t Call It Murder
2021
Residency
at Wexner Center for the Arts
for They Won’t Call It Murder Post-Production
2020
In developmemt
Soft in the Shell
Confluence Film Festival, Ten.01 Media Local Shorts
2024-2025
They Won’t Call It Murder
Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, BAMCineFest, Camden International Film Festival, Unorthodocs Film Festival, DOC NYC, AFI Film Festival, Double Exposure Film Festival
2021
An Ode to Cbus, Ohio
Local Shorts
cinéSPEAK
2021
Movingbodyofwork
Mono No Aware
Anthology Film Archives
2019
2025
Nature: course at NSISIM Studio
2025
Time: course at NSISIM Studio
2025
Weaving: course at NSISIM Studio
2025
Archival Research Methodologies: workshop for People’s Media Records
2025
Video Production II: Adjunct at Arcadia University
2025
Embroidery: workshop with Mural Arts, Forman Arts Initiative and African Health Organzation
2025
Filmmaking Using Found Footage: course at PhillyCAM TV
2024
Archival Research Methologies: workshop for People’s Media Record
2024
Experimental Video: Adjunct at University of the Arts
2024
Documentary Shorts: course at PhillyCAM TV
2024
Sony A7III Cinematography: course at PhillyCAM TV
2023
Afrofuturism on Screen: course at Film Futura
2023
Teaching Artist: after-school program at The Young Artist Program
2020–2023
Dreamcasting the Cinescape: workshop at Film Futura
2021
Teen Council Facilitator: after-school program at Bronx Museum of the Arts
2019-2021
Filmmaking: course at Harlem School of the Arts
2019-2020
Webs of Time: workshop for Black Quantum Futurism
2020
Webs of Care: workshop for Eyebeam Digital Day Camp
2020
Super 8mm: course at Mono No Aware
2019
Storytelling with Found Footage: workshop for Eyebeam Digital Dday Camp
2019
Literary Support: after-school program at Columbus Library
2018-2019
Art & Homework Support: after-school program at Refugee & Immigrant Services
2017-2019
Creative Direction
group show
Confluence Film Festival
Academy of Natural Sciences
2025
NSISIM Studio
all programming
2025
NO EVIL EYE CINEMA
all programming
2019-Present
Black August Film Series
cinéSPEAK and Free Library of Philadelphia
2024
Teens Curate the Museum Collections
Bronx Museum of the Arts
2020
Free Space
group show
Wexner Center for the Arts
2020
year-long workshops, exhibits, video programs & artist collaborations
Termite TV Collective
2024-2025
Film Futura alternative online film school
NO EVIL EYE CINEMA
2021-2023
Mama’s Bail Collaboration youth-led projects with People’s Paper Co-Op cohort, Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, and Second State Press
The Young Artist Program
2021-2022
Sequence 01 touring shorts program across the u.s.
NO EVIL EYE CINEMA
2019
group show
Termite TV at Cherry Street Pier Gallery
2025
At Your Shores
group show
Confluence Film Festival
Academy of Natural Sciences
2025
Indivisible: Immigrant Artists
group show
Imperfect Gallery
2024
Pitch Blue
solo show
iLab Studio Residency,
University of the Arts
2023
Termite TV Collective x Visible Evidence Conference
2025
Jury
Narrative Features
Cleveland International Film Festival
2025
Interview
Black Ecology Ecosystems
Chisolm Legacy Project
2024
Masterclass
cinéSPEAK
2023
Moderator
Neptune Frost Screening
Muhlenberg Film Association
2023
Panelist
Film Distribution
DOC NYC
2022
Jury
Experimental Shorts
New Orleans Film Festival
2019
Video
Pitch Blue Exhibit
2023
Sun Dances
Video
Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference
2022
Live-Performance
Quaternion by Caitlin Cherry
Pace Gallery
2021
NSISIM Studio
NSISIM means spirit in bulu (Cameroon.) a slow burn practice of ecological embodiment.
Currently offering courses, workshops, consultancy and curatorial insight.
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Currently offering courses, workshops, consultancy and curatorial insight.
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on view Aug. 1-31
Cherry Street Pier Gallery
Philadelphia
2025
As part of the group exhibition Understories by Termite TV Collective, the installation Trust Your Waters (2025) is a meditation on home-building, veils, unraveling, and impernance.
Inspired by a trip in New Orleans and uncovering oyster shells in roads and the artist’s personal collection of shells -- a video is projected with water swamp and superimposed with images of shells and Black life and photography.
Curator & Collaborating Artist
Academy of Natural Sciences x CineSPEAK
Philadelphia
2025
An installation embodying the themes of water for the opening reception of tthe Confluence Film Festival hosted by CineSPEAK and the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University featuring collaborations and works by Suldano Abddiruhman, Sophie Lee, Yidan Zeng and Micah Baptiste.
Woven textiles, video projections, green screen shell videos, and a musical soundscape filled the dinosaur room.
Pace Gallery
New York City
2021
As part of the group exhibition Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work, which was on view at Pace Gallery, Pace Live presented a one-time, multi-ensemble performance centered on artist Caitlin Cherry’s kinetic painting-installation Quaternion (2021).
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iLab Residency - UArts
Philadelphia
2023
2023
pictured is a visit from Collective Climb youth cohort
2023
My mom would tell me stories that the soil back home was orange and that it would color the green leaves of the landscape from the cars driving through and throwing the soil’s dust from its tires to the side.
Cameroon was named after the word shrimp in Portuguese. In an ode to a country I come from, I created shrimps out of dried lillies and suspended them into a ritual of home building: wrapping concrete in orange fabric.
2023
Carving on what used to be skin, visitors in the show were encouraged to carve as the entry point and closing of the show’s exhibit design.
2023
What is a film encapsulated into an installation? As an embodiment of SILK (narrative in development,) I printed stills from the film onto silk fabric, drew a map of the world and placed a clock and fishing pole as motifs in the story.
2023
Printed on silk are images of sea creatures photographed at the Baltimore Aquarium and 3D renderings of a portrait onto water as a nod to feelings of home within bodies of water.
2023
My grandfather collected letters with Ivoirian stamps, sealed. As a nod to the letters written between my grandparents and myself across oceans, containers of clear water and indigo water are held by containers of milk crates upcycled from leftover after-school youth programs’ for refugee & immigrants I used to work with.
What is left unsaid, what is unopened, what is clear v. opaque, and what we make use of in our environments sing the blues of longing while cultivating a new home.
in honor of my grandfather.
2023
A self-portrait encapsulating the rupture of homes.
2023
South Florida
2021
A meditation and choreography in conversation with the sun and a shedding palm tree.
Various
A collection of drawings as a meditative, soothing, and worldbuiling practice.
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A series of 35mm photos at shores across California, New Jersey, Cameroon, Maryland and nomadic lands I’ve inhabited.
2023
Taken at the Baltimore Aquarium
Various