hieroglyph (2021)

Involuntarily displaced in Chicago two months postKatrina 13yearold Davis wrestles with the cultural landscape of a new city and school community while secretly coping with the PTSD of an assault at the Superdome With her mother still in New Orleans committed to the fight for Black land ownership and her father committed to starting a new life in the Midwest divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart Will Davis be left hanging in the balance hieroglyph traverses the intersection of environmental racism sexual violence and displacement examining the psychological effects of a statesanctioned manmade disaster on the most vulnerable members of the Katrina diaspora