This short film by Nina Jackson Levin is a character study of two sisters, Annette and Earlene, long-time residents who illustrate the broader story of the present-day negotiation between resilience and resistance at stake within the City of Detroit. Responding to the 2020 Symposium prompt and reflecting on the film, Jackson Levin proposes that resilience and resistance are entangled phenomena and asks: resilience for whom?

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