Join us for a screening of three short films by art collective radical play followed by a conversation with filmmaker Na Forest Lim. This event offers a behind-the-scenes look at how their projects take shape from conceptual beginnings to final cut. We’ll examine how relationships guide their work at every stage and reflect on what it means to create art rooted in reciprocal care within community. Together, we’ll consider why making art in relationships is not just an aesthetic choice but a powerful political act.

About Na:

Na Forest Lim (they/them) is an autistic, queer, and trans artist, film director, and photojournalist practicing sustainable poetic living in Waawiyaatanong, Anishinaabe land. They were born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and now call Detroit their home.

Na is the founder of radical play, a visual art collective that tells stories with Detroit QTBIPOC artists, organizers, disabled, immigrants, sex workers, and other marginalized individuals, all with exceptional creative rigor and tenderness. Na’s films have been featured in the LA Black Film Fest, Black Alphabet Film Festival, Queer World Film Festival and many other places around the world from Seattle to Fargo, Ypsilanti to Leeds, United Kingdom, from North Caroline to Brussels, from Paris back to (of course) Detroit, and more.