I’m a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller using photography, poetry, and film to archive Black life as ritual, resistance, and radical imagination. Rooted in the South Side of Chicago and shaped by global Black traditions, my work centers memory, movement, and the sacred beauty of everyday survival.
alhamdulillah is a quiet portrait of devotion, care, and Black womanhood within the Nation of Islam. Through intimate close-ups and ritual gestures—mothering, cleansing, reading, stillness—the film honors the sacred in the everyday, offering a cinematic prayer of gratitude and grace.
directed by Antonio Foli (blk_dnt_crack)
poetry: kwabena foli
actor: Renata Noelle
shot, directed & edited by Lauryn Blythe