Chaka Khan, Good Friends, & A Bright Future

Blake Morton 

Chaka Khan, Good Friends, & A Bright Future is a short film by Blake Morton that fantasizes about a utopia in which Black Queer people are sovereign and sacred. 

Blake Morton (b. 1999, Atlanta) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across avant-garde video art, photomontage, creative writing, and oil painting. Morton is living and working in Los Angeles, California, and holds a BA in Philosophy & Art from Claremont McKenna College. Morton’s work is concerned with queer identity, race, technology, and memory. 

He expresses gratitude to Aly Ogasian, Ken Gonzales-Day, Kasper Kovitz, Chloe Martinez, Nancy Macko, Robert Cain, and Toluwani Roberts for their invaluable support throughout the semester.