Dominic Yarabe
filmmaker, artist
filmmaker, artis


entre le feu et le clair de lune 
directed by Dominic Yarabe



A father recounts. A village reenacts. A daughter documents. 

An Ivorian father and his American-born daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child.

With the help of the children living in his village today, the three generations make a film together and create a mythical tapestry of entwining timelines, nightmares, and memories.












Headshot
directed by Dominic Yarabe



confronts current issues within image-making while reflecting on the past patterns that have brought us to this ethical dilemma.

is a mediation on the relationship that Black Americans have with image-making and landscape politics

a challenge of the documentary form; an address towards the unbalance of director-subject relationships; an exploration of the historical violences of image-making.

a reckoning with photography, colonialism, power and landscape 















What Cannot Be Seen
co-directed by Dominic Yarabe and Julie Gaynin


Details:

Real estate agents share their stories navigating housing discrimination in the Bay Area.

This film project was made in collaboration with Julie Gaynin. Gaynin spent the last decade working as an editor and assistant editor on documentary features and series. From 2021-2022, Julie was an Art of Editing fellow with the Sundance Institute.
















con·text 
directed by Dominic Yarabe


Details:

A filmmaker takes us on an unexpected tour of their house that slowly reveals the absurdity of our current age.

A hybrid-fiction essay piece. A digital satire.














































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