Design in a Frame of Emotion

<b>A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of <i>Black Panther</i>.</b><br><br>Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she tells an audience that she considers herself to be more of a story designer. As film stills and concept art from a few of those stories--<i>Moonlight</i>, <i>Miles Ahead</i>, <i>Creed</i>, <i>Lemonade</i>, and <i>Black Panther</i>--flash across a screen, Beachler engages in a meandering conversation with Jacqueline Stewart and Toni L. Griffin about set building and curation, urban design, location scouting, Afrofuturism, fictional histories, and Black feminist narratives, and illustrates her role: a designer behind on-screen tableaux that provide not only visual feasts of artistry and imagination, but also intimate spaces of emotion, humanity, and constructed memory.<br><br>Copublished with Harvard University Graduate School of Design