#  Raven Jackson, 'Finding Transcendence in Image, Sound, and the Void' 

 



    ![still from a film by Raven Jackson](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-10/IMG_8443.jpeg?h=7ffcfde7&itok=Kt_BqnWo) 

 



 

####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 29, 2025** 

 12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT 

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 **Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center**  

 [104 Mount Auburn Street  
Floor 2R  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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**Raven Jackson** is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Recently nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, *All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt*, made in partnership with Tender, PASTEL, and A24, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by *The New Yorker*, *Rolling Stone*, and RogerEbert.com.

A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s *BLKNWS: Terms &amp; Conditions*, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO's adaptation of *Sula*, based on Toni Morrison's novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, *Surface*. Her short films *Nettles* and *A Guide to Breathing Underwater* are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. *Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt*, the companion book for her debut feature, is currently out from A24. Her photography can be found in the book, as well as in *BOMB Magazine*. Her chapbook of poetry, *little violences*, is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine.



 

*Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series*

Colloquia are held Wednesdays at Noon, September 10 - November 19 (excluding November 5), in the Hiphop Archive &amp; Research Institute at the Hutchins Center



 

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