Pen and ink drawing of an animation still for the short film I, Destini
date: label: Date
content: 2013-2016
name: label: Created by
content: Destini T. Riley, American
label: Subject of
content: Destini T. Riley, American
notes: label: Caption
content: The short animated film "I, Destini" tells the story of having an incarcerated brother from Destini Riley’s perspective (at the time she was 14). The film is a collaboration between her and filmmaker Nicholas Pilarski. All of the key frames were drawn by Destini. Destini’s mother and father, Latina Riley and Carlos Riley, Nicholas, and Sarah Bassett did the subsequent Rotoscoping of more-than 10,000 frames. Destini and Nicholas met at a community meeting held at JC’s Kitchen, a soul food restaurant in Durham, NC owned by Destin’s aunt Phyllis Terry, while Destini’s family was organizing around what they deemed an unjust incarceration of her brother. Destini’s brother Carlos Riley, Jr. was acquitted for shooting a police officer, but imprisoned on lesser charges.
label: Description
content: A pen and ink drawing of an animation still for a short film titled I, Destini. The sketch features Destini sitting in front of a glass partition. She holds a telephone receiver with her proper right hand as she looks over her proper right shoulder. A crumbling, amorphous mass can be seen on the other side of the glass partition, toward the bottom right corner of the frame.
place: label: Place made
content: North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Animation
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Independent films
label: Topic
content: Journalism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Prisons
label: Topic
content: Youth
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: I, Destini Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Destini T. Riley, Nicholas Pilarski, Lattina Lennon Riley, Sarah M. Bassett, Kathleen Lingo and The New York Times Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2018.94.2.30
objectType: label: Type
content: drawings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Destini T. Riley, Nicholas Pilarski, Lattina Lennon Riley, Sarah M. Bassett, The New York Times Company
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)