This talk explores the forms of affiliation and affective kinship produced by visual enactments of black precarity. It does so by engaging the work of black filmmaker and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa, an artist whose cinematic practice challenges us to think differently about the labor required by black visuality, the inseparability of black joy and black suffering, and the centrality of embodied performances to both. Focusing on the affective registers of black visuality that converge in still moving images – images that trouble the relationship between stillness, movement and motion – the talk unpacks a series of cinematic, choreographic and documentary instantiations of still moving images that depict black visuality as ‘flow’, a term used to name the transformative ways Black visual artists reckon with contemporary assaults on blackness and capture black practices of refusal in the afterlife of slavery.