🎬#ArtIsAWeapon - Y'all go see "Paint Me A Road Out of Here," which opens @filmforumnyc this weekend, February 7. Centered around preserving trailblazing #artistactivist @faithringgold 's painting "For The Women's House," which was once on view at NYC's notorious Riker's Island jail, the documentary examines mass incarceraration and the power of art to reimagine new possibilities.
🎥video & ✍️🏾caption reposted from @isisthasaviour Our official trailer is here🔥🔥🔥 Join us 2/7- 2/20 at @filmforumnyc for the theatrical release of "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" directed by award winning filmmaker Catherine Gund @aubinpictures and executively produced by @yarashahidi @chocolatemommyluv @mickalenethomas @juliemehretu and myself among others!
Caption reposted from @filmforumnyc PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE opens this Friday, February 7. From filmmaker Catherine Gund & exec. producers Yara and Keri Shahidi, a powerful snapshot of the movement against the mass incarceration of Black women via the tenacious fight against Kafkaesque bureaucracy to liberate Faith Ringgold’s 1971 painting “For the Women’s House” from Rikers Island.
“A poignant protest… [that] navigates the trail-blazing nature of Ringgold’s career and how [Mary Enoch Elizabeth] Baxter, the younger artist, followed in Ringgold’s footsteps as a practitioner of Black radical art.” – Akané Okoshi, The Brooklyn Rail
Gund and Baxter will appear alongside special guests for Q&As after select screenings, co-presented by the New Museum and Women's Community Justice Association (WCJA) on Fri, 2/7, the Center for Art and Advocacy on Sat, 2/8, and Vera Institute of Justice & Silver Art Projects on Thu, 2/13.
Event info and tickets now available https://buff.ly/3WkYTxS .
PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE Opens Friday, February 7 at Film Forum
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