Project Description
Dominic Yarabe
FSC-LEF Fellow 2026-27
Dominic Yarabe is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist.
Yarabe’s practice focuses on creating nonlinear, fractured films that refract rather than reflect; that visualize unconscious ways of seeing and experiencing; that traverse the complexities of the immigrant and black experience; and that find intersections between digital art and cultural commentary.
Her work is informed by her research in black visual culture, particularly the ways in which image-making might subvert the colonial gaze both in real-time and through its long-term effects within modern forms of digital media.
Her films have screened at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, True/False Film Fest, and other festivals, museums and cultural institutions internationally. She is a MacDowell Fellow and a Duke Center for Documentary Studies DocX Residency Fellow.
Yarabe received her MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University and is currently a PhD candidate in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.
FSC Works
Feu de Lune (working title)
Dominic Yarabe
Bobia, a rural village in Côte d’Ivoire, keeps a buried secret. The war has one memory, and it is three generations long. In a landscape where history lives through stories, the memory of this largely erased civil war survives through children’s dreams, adult silences, and a mother’s nightly bedtime stories.
Feu de Lune is a feature-length film exploring West African tales and the palimpsests of wartime. The film traces tensions between ephemera and archive, visibility and opacity, examining storytelling itself as a practice through which knowledge is re-membered, regenerated, and performed by those who inherit its consequences.