Christopher Harris has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an impressive class whose work will span the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. Harris is head of Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts.

For his Radcliffe project, Harris will continue researching, writing, and re-photographing original and archival analog film footage as well as creating the sound design for Speaking in Tongues, his 16mm collage sourced in part from educational films, Hollywood films, cartoons, television commercials, European art cinema, and various ephemera.

Speaking in Tongues is an experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus with the conventions and mechanics of the cinematic apparatus.