Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

44 (1981-01-01)
Blytheville, Arkansas, USA

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is an American visual artist, filmmaker and curator based in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the founder and director of Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery and library space centering Black artistic productions.

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Black./Womyn.:Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent 2008 (0.8)

This documentary is about the perspectives and lives of black lesbians from assorted backgrounds.
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The Labyrinth 1.0 2020 (6)

The Labyrinth 1.0 is a poetic film essay that cites writer and poet Brad Johnson’s poem “The Labyrinth,” published in the anthology Milking Black Bull (1995). Sourcing 16-mm surveillance footage, 16-mm 1970s tearoom porn, and structuralist film footage shot in North Philadelphia, the work visually explores the concept of the labyrinth space as a site for cruising and gesture-based desire. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2017 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, a program of seven videos prioritizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett.
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Bumming Cigarettes 2012 (1)

A short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test and a middle aged black gay HIV positive man.