Three by Dwayne LeBlanc - L.A. premiere of YOU DO NOT EXIST (2026) + filmmaker in person!
Among the most exciting L.A.-based independent filmmakers to emerge this decade, we’re excited to have Dwayne LeBlanc in person to present his hypnotic trilogy of short films, screening together locally for the first time.
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Feb 18, 2026, 8:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
Three by Dwayne LeBlanc: CIVIC, NOW HEAR ME GOOD, YOU DO NOT EXIST
doors: 7:30
film: 8:00
Among the most exciting Los Angeles-based independent filmmakers to emerge this decade, Dwayne LeBlanc’s rigorous and hypnotic films are tactile snapshots of a life in transition, each following the travels of a single character (portrayed by Barrington Darius) between L.A. and Europe. Set in intimate spaces—the interior of a car, at a crowded party, or in the backyard—and imbuing them with a deeply felt lyricism and texture, LeBlanc’s filmmaking is filled with inspired and intuitive choices, taking a polyphonic approach to depicting community life on screen.
Widely acclaimed after screening at international film festivals, these three short films will be screening together for the first time with the filmmaker in person, including the L.A. premiere of his brand-new film YOU DO NOT EXIST, followed by a conversation with writer Harmony Holiday.
Special thanks to Shelby Eggers and ellie sunlight moon. Flyer by @painrelieverfeverreducer
CIVIC
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2022, U.S., 20m, DCP
“An ideal short film… I’m unfailingly enthralled by its display of inventiveness, its dramatic scope, and its beauty—in other words, by its union of concept, substance, and style.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Official Selection: 2022 International Rotterdam Film Festival
NOW, HEAR ME GOOD
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2025, U.S., 15m, DCP
After hosting a party in his new home abroad, a musician explores his sense of community and, in exile, rediscovers his voice.
Official Selection: 2025 International Rotterdam Film Festival
YOU DO NOT EXIST
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2026, U.S., 8m, DCP
Los Angeles premiere!
Planes carve through the sky, ferrying strangers in and out of Booker’s world, while the weight of unrealized paths stir beneath them. The sky rips open at the edge of his senses, he listens.
Official Selection: 2026 International Rotterdam Film Festival
Followed by a conversation with Dwayne LeBlanc and Harmony Holiday
Total runtime: approx. 60m + conversation
Dwayne LeBlanc is a Los Angeles born, first-generation Caribbean-American artist and filmmaker. His short CIVIC, produced in partnership with Ghetto Film School and Netflix, was featured in The New Yorker and was listed as #7 on The New Yorker’s list of Best Films of 2023. CIVIC is currently screening on The Criterion Channel. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2022, a 2023 award recipient of the California Arts Council fellowship for LA County, a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and artist resident, and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2023 “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Dwayne also wrote on Kenya Barris’ limited series about Richard Pryor.
Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, filmmaker, and the author of five collections of poetry, including Hollywood Forever and Maafa (2022). She curates a standing archive space for griot poetics and a related performance and events series at LA’s music venue 2220 Arts + Archives and writes for the Los Angeles Times’ Image Magazine, 4Columnms, and The New Yorker among other publications. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, a research fellowship from Harvard, and a teaching fellowship from UC Berkeley. She’s working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press, a biography of Abbey Lincoln, and a memoir, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects.