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Monique Walton’s 2010 film Dark Matters paradoxically masters the sounds and images of fugitivity through the use of overexposure, feedback, and static. This work approaches Walton’s fugitive practices through an Afrofuturist lens, and critiques the formalities and codification of its inclusion in Criterion’s Afrofuturism collection. To analyze Afrofuturism from a fugitive perspective is not just to analyze storylines that focus on African diasporic subjects, but also how the filmmakers surpass the limitations of filmic strategy to approach the uncommunicable aspects of Black experience. Afrofuturism can bring a new, fugitive imagination to an audience often fed settler singularities. And, as we see in Dark Matters, new futures can be formally imagined, allowing filmmakers to depict Black experiences not as visual truths that can be neatly packaged, but as something that exists outside the containments of traditional imaging modes.