Join us for a screening of SEEDS, programming in conjunction with our current exhibition Radical Rage, curated by Charlie Farrell.

SEEDS
A film by Brittany Shyne
123 minutes / B&W / United States
2025 Sundance Film Festival winner of U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

SEEDS is a portrait of centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black and

white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational black farmers and the

significance of owning land.

Watch the trailer here.

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Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate

portrait of farming today, SEEDS is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and

struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land.

With remarkable intimacy, the film documents their everyday lives - cotton harvesting, chasing

cows, dealing with broken machinery and financial precarities. The camera relishes simple

moments - conversations through car windows, candy from grandma’s purse as it captures

moments of warmth, joy and fulfillment - turning them into striking vignettes that honor the

families’ connection to the land and each other.

But the sobering reality underscores the urgency of their story. Black farmers owned 16 million

acres of land in 1910 but today, that number has dwindled to a fraction. The farmers in the

community struggle to access funding that white farmers nearby seem to secure with ease.

Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism

that persist to this present day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of

farmers. SEEDS emphasizes how human beings are innately tied to our foundational roots, roots

which carry our ancestral memories - somber, bitter, and sweet.