| Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (84 min) US |
[watch trailer] |
Friday 10/24, 4:10 PM (Session 22)
Director: Thomas Allen Harris
Producers: Thomas Allen Harris, Ann Bennett, Deborah Willis, Don Perry
Description:
This film explores how African American communities have used the camera as a tool for social change from the invention of photography to the present. This epic tale poetically moves between the present and the past, through contemporary photographers and artists whose images and stories seek to reconcile legacies of pride and shame while giving voice to images long suppressed, forgotten and hidden from sight.
Biography:
Thomas Allen Harris is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family and spirituality. Chimpanzee’s innovative and award-winning documentary films - VINTAGE – Families of Value, E Minha Cara/That’s My Face, Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness - have received critical acclaim at international film festivals and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. Mr. Harris’ videos and installations have been featured at prestigious museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Reina Sophia, London Institute of the Arts and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Harris was a tenured associate professor of media arts at the University of California San Diego and a visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence College. In 2009, he launched the transmedia community engagement project, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR.tv), supported by the Fledgling Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the CrossCurrents Foundation. DDFR is a virtual gathering space and touring roadshow where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photographic collections.
Contact Information:
Through A Lens Darkly, LLC
e: throughalensdarkly@gmail.com
w: www.1world1family.me
©2014 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF)
