Peace Kites- Trailer

In this film, New York-based artist Miguel Luciano travels Kenya to develop large-scale kite workshops with residents of the Mukuru slum community. In the workshops, up to hundreds of participants, from children to elders, build handmade kites with life-size photographic self-portraits of themselves. When the kites are flown en masse in a final culminating event in the footsteps of the Rift Valley, and as the participants see images of themselves flying simultaneously in the air above, the kites symbolize freedom to Mukuru residents and engender a dialogue transcending tribal and generational boundaries.