FILM: re-work/re-frame A Night of Short Films & Documentaries

This event is limited capacity. Please arrive early. Lineup is subject to change. http://blackartstoryfilm.eventbrite.com/

FILM: re-work/re-frame
A Night of Short Films & Documentaries
Friday, Feb 19, 7-9pm
Pratt Institute’s Film/Video Center, 550 Myrtle Ave

A film night to spotlight voices under heard or unseen. A night to re-view and re-frame perceptions and interpretations of the lived experiences of people of color. Featuring films by Yisa Fermin, Lindsay Catherine Harris, Esteban del Valle.

Screening: SHADES
Filmaker: Yisa Fermin
Synopsis: SHADES is a new web series working to promote the visibility and representation of young artists and art administrators of color working in New York City. These video portraits examine the core beliefs, thoughts, and passions driving the subject’s endeavors and how their experience of race in the art world affects their work. SHADES will proudly premiere at Black Artstory Month.

Screening: Evoking the Mulatto
Filmaker:Lindsay Catherine Harris
Synopsis: Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. Featuring filmed interviews with young artists and activists, photography, animation, and historical mappings, this interactive video art project seeks to address a relevant contemporary issue by glimpsing at its chronicle.www.evokingthemulatto.com

Screening: Too Little Time To Love
Filmaker: Esteban del Valle (also featured window mural at Ingersoll Community Center)
Synopsis: For “Too Little Time To Love,” Esteban del Valle recreated a 1963 Ford Galaxy in his studio while at the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY. The sculpture was built from wood, foam, cardboard, and covered in collaged images of the car itself. The Ford Galaxy functioned as a set for a monologue comprised solely of quotes taken from speeches delivered by Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi. The monologue rearranged exact quotes to create a script that resembled one side of a heated dialogue, resulting in a narrative involving love, betrayal, violence, and murder. The scene unfolds over the span of a simulated car ride down Martin Luther King Kr. Boulevard in New York, and was performed by del Valle while wearing mask composed of the faces of all three historical figures combined.
www.estebandelvalle.com/illustrations

More info on the Filmmakers can be found at:
Lindsay Catherine
www.lindsaycatherine.com / @sirrahyasdnil

Yisa Fermin
@fermincreeps

Esteban del Valle
www.estebandelvalle.com / @estebandelvalle112

Presented by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership FILM: re-work/re-frame, A Night of Short Films & Documentaries to spotlight voices under heard or unseen is part of Black Artstory Month 2016 titled, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED. The series of FREE performances, talks, film screenings, and public art experiences celebrate the enduring influences and contributions that African Americans have made and are making within the visual and performing arts worlds. Coinciding with Black History Month, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED will transform Myrtle Avenue into a cultural destination with window murals, art exhibits and events featuring the work of 50 artists. http://www.myrtleavenue.org/blackartstory