Flight 24.4 marks a first for Blackbird: a flight devoted entirely to video essays, sound, and visual art.
The artists gathered here are reckoning with what survives transmission. A bird is a portal into histories both personal and collective. A grandmother reappears through photographs, recipes, and the memory of a homeland left behind. Ordinary objects, religious rituals, family archives, voices, and landscapes become vessels of meaning that exceed their forms. Across these works, inheritance is translated, remixed, obscured, distorted, recovered.
But never static.
Sound and image liberate these artists to move beyond the limits of linear narrative. Voices leap between languages and registers. Memory folds time upon itself. The familiar becomes strange; the strange becomes intimate. Whether through experimental montage, layered soundscapes, documentary photography, or meditations on place and belonging, each work asks how we live with what has been passed down and how we transform it as we bear it forward.
We invite you to listen closely, look carefully, and linger in the spaces where image, sound, and story meet.
