Event Host: Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative
Short Description: Experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris joins film scholar Terri Francis for an improvisatory, audience interactive, and expansive dialogue set to film clips, music, stills, literature and the Afrosurrealist unknown in this Diversities in Practice event.
Experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris joins film scholar Terri Francis for an improvisatory, audience interactive, and expansive dialogue set to film clips, music, stills, literature and the Afrosurrealist unknown in this Diversities in Practice event.
Harris will share and discuss examples of his work in relation to the poetics of the cultural practitioners who have most informed his possibilities. Artists and writers to be discussed may include Miles Davis, Roscoe Mitchell, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Parliament-Funkadelic, Toni Morrison, Kerry James Marshall, Bill Gunn, Eugene Atget, Robert Bresson, Ernie Gehr, James Benning, Ishmael Reed, Carrie Mae Weems, Matt Saunders, Angela Davis, Eric Lott, Paul Robeson, Richard Dyer, Aldo Tambellini, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Harris is familiar to Wex audiences from his contributions to the Cinetracts ’20 project, viewable here. Francis recently joined us for conversations with Hanif Abdurraqib, Ja’Tovia Gary, and about her book Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism.
Learn more about the event and register here.
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. This virtual program will be presented with automated closed captions. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at 614-688–3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.