Online Screening: New Labor Movements: Creation/Emergence

Submitted by the Event Organizer

February 16-18, 2021; talk Thursday, February 18, 12 noon Pacific time

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and the Roxie Theater present an online screening of “Movement IV. Creation/Emergence” from the short film program ‘New Labor Movements,’ curated by Leila Weefur. These films establish labor outside of the physical implications of the body and escort the viewer into a concept of labor that is experienced across all sensorial and psychological planes. It is available for online viewing from February 16 to 18, 2021 via the Roxie Theater’s Virtual Cinema platform while “Movement III. Freedom/Liberation” is on view at McEvoy Arts’ San Francisco gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Lessons of the Hour at McEvoy Arts through March 13.

Rizvana Bradley, assistant professor of Film and Media at UC Berkeley, moderates a free online discussion on February 18 at 12pm PST with Weefur and filmmakers Elegance Bratton, Jovan James, and Jenn Nkiru.

Creation/Emergence opens with Nkiru’s “Rebirth is Necessary” (2017), a “multi-sensorial therapeutic experience,” that suggests an almost synesthetic interpretation of Black existence. An adjacent sense of catharsis is explored in “T: (2019), Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s profound look at how Black people grieve one another, while Elegance Bratton and Jovan James’ “Buck” (2020) explores the process of surrendering to the difficulties of acceptance. Also included are films by Terrance Daye and Onyeka Igwe. Weefur states, “Movement IV. Creation/Emergence is what you hope to find on the other side of liberation-to discover a continuum, not of struggle but of complexity that is Blackness as gestalt.”

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McEvoy Arts is dedicated to providing a safe environment for all by following all current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, the state of California, and the city and county of San Francisco. Admission is free by timed-entry reservation or with a walk-up reservation (limited quantities available). For more information, please visit www.mcevoyarts.org/visit.

Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

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