MoAD & SFMOMA present a screening of EXECUTIVE ORDER (Lázaro Ramos, 101 minutes, 2020. In Portuguese with English subtitles), followed by a post screening discussion with LIMITLESS curator Cornelius Moore and UC Berkeley Professor Tianna Paschel.

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MoAD’s groundbreaking exhibition UNBOUND: Art, Blackness, and the Universe invites audiences to experience Blackness as expansive, limitless, and cosmic, reaching beyond the boundaries of Earth into space, time, and imagination.

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In dialogue, with the exhibition, the Limitless film series brings together award-winning films from across the African Diaspora, including the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, the Caribbean, French Guiana, Nigeria, and Zambia. Spanning narrative, documentary, and experimental work, these films explore speculative futures, ancestral memory, science fiction, African mythology, and visionary figures such as Octavia Butler and George Clinton.

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Together, the exhibition and film series offer an invitation to think beyond constraint and to imagine new possibilities for being, becoming, and belonging. Select screenings will feature guest filmmakers and speakers, offering audiences a chance to engage more deeply with the stories and ideas shaping this dynamic cinematic experience.

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About the Film

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Set in Brazil “somewhere in the future”, a lawyer sues the Brazilian government for reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans. The reactionary authoritarian government responds with an executive order proposing to repatriate its Black citizens to Africa on a voluntary basis. This call to “self deport” quickly becomes a mandatory one as people go underground or resist to avoid capture. EXECUTIVE ORDER is a chilling and astonishingly current thriller.

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Executive Order Trailer

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About the Speaker

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Tianna S. Paschel is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of California, Berkeley where she also earned her doctoral degree. She served as co-director of the Black Studies Collaboratory, which brought together artists, activists, locals, and scholars to amplify the interdisciplinary, political, and world-building work of Black Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on race, inequality, development and globalization in the Americas, with a special interest in how Black communities mobilize to create a better world.

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She is the author of the award-winning book Becoming Black Political Subjects (2016) which analyzes Black social movements in Colombia and Brazil and their successful but complex struggle for land rights, affirmative action and other ethnoracial policies. Her work can be found in the American Journal of Sociology, the Du Bois Review, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She is also co-author of Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide with Cristina Mora (2026). She is a mom, urban farmer, and a dancer who has practiced, taught and performed Afro-Diasporic dance for decades.

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