Notes On A Siren

A four-minute visual narrative that's inspired by the queer youth inside us all that features Grammy Award Winning band A Great Big World.

Ballroom culture and ancestral rituals infuse in a nourishing potion brewed up by a Black, queer, fashion coven.

An experimental fairytale dedicated to the modern black boy, in which four boys disappear one night, as many black boys do, and find themselves on a fantastical journey to break the curses of black boyhood. As an homage to the great fairy tales of the past, “How To Raise a Black Boy” opens with the cover of a book, intricately carved in wood with a boy and a man on either side. “I remember home, or at least I can imagine it.” This is the voice of narrator Rayceen Pendarvis of the iconic voguing House of Pendarvis, known to many as “Mother”. The narrator is an omniscient presence, a fairy godmother, who speaks as one of the boys.