the archives
strolling.
Connecting stories across the Black diaspora.
The strolling series was an online documentary series that documented Black people across the diaspora, from London to Paris to Kingston, walking and talking about various pertinent topics, spanning the political and social, to the philosophical and anecdotal. 25 episodes were independently produced and released online from 2014-2016, with special attention made to making the episodes as accessible as possible; CC Subtitles in up to 7 languages from Kinyarwanda to Portuguese were made available by the support and collaboration of viewers, in order to make the series accessible to non-anglophone and hearing impaired communities.
“I first came across Emeke’s work by way of a short video series called “Strolling”: simple yet beautifully shot interviews with young women and men about social and political issues. I haven’t been able to stop watching since.”
— The New York Times
Strolling Series.
What you’ll get on-demand access* to:
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As the series organically grew, episodes started to be loosely organised in terms of the places they were filmed, though concepts and ideas of nationality, language and identity of interviewees often defied these categorisations:
- strolling (uk): 12 episodes
- flaner (france): 4 episodes
- wandelen (netherlands): 3 episodes
- passeggiando (italy): 2 episodes
- strolling (usa): 3 episodes
- strolling (jamaica): 1 episode -
The feature of edit of ‘strolling’ departs from the webseries as it thematically combines both interviews from the series as well as those that were not released into seven chapters:
Negationism, erasure & denial
Reparations
Citizenship
Genocidal categorisation & propaganda
Language
Identity
Black is my default
*Purchasing access to view the Strolling Series Archives is intended for educators, researchers and students seeking access for educational purposes only. For all commercial screening and licensing inquiries please email info@cecileemeke.com