Speaking in Camouflage: Christopher Harris
Fri, Sept 20, 2024
7 pm
Courtesy of Christopher Harris
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As part of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, this film program organized by guest curator Greg de Cuir Jr. explores a body of work by Christopher Harris, one of the most important Black film artists to emerge since the year 2000. Harris’s work expresses a fidelity to the materiality of analog film and a structuring concern for Black peoples and culture, while functioning under the influence of free jazz and other avant-garde musical forms. This program features the global premiere of two new films, b/w and Speaking in Tongues: Take One, as well as the premiere of a newly restored print of Harris’s early masterwork still/here.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Christopher Harris; editor, writer, and curator Dessane Lopez Cassell; and Michael B. Gillespie, Associate Professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Conversation participants are subject to change.
Programming Schedule
Christopher Harris (he/him; b. 1962 St. Louis, MO; lives and works in Princeton, NJ)
b/w, 2023, 16mm film, black-and-white, silent; 3 min.
Speaking in Tongues: Take One, 2024. 16mm film to digital, black-and-white, sound; 15 min.
still/here, 2000–1. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 60 min.
