A Dialog with Elissa Blount-Moorehead
The way forward toward a viable Black cinema
Wednesday, October 30th,
Noon – 1:00 PM
Location:
TBA
Free event, catered
Elissa Blount Moorhead is an artist and producer exploring the
poetics of quotidian Black life, to emphasize gestural dialectics of quiet
domesticity and community building. She dwells in both immutable Black culture
and the impermanence of its physical manifestations. Moorhead has created
public art, exhibitions, and cultural programs for the last 25 years. She is
currently a principal partner at TNEG film studios, with Arthur Jafa and Malik
Sayeed. TNEG asserts that a cinema calibrated to the cultural, socioeconomic,
and existential particulars of Black being is not only possible but inescapably
the way forward toward a viable Black cinema. Moorhead co-founded Red Clay Arts
in NYC. She has co-produced and curated over 20 exhibitions and multimedia
projects including Random Occurrences; Cat Calls (Street Harassment project);
Practicum; FunkGodJazzMedicine; and Art in Odd Places. She was awarded the USA
Artist Fellowship in (2018), Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship (2017), Ford
Foundation /Just Films/Rockwood Fellowship (2017) and Ruby Award (2016)
Creative Capital (2019) Baker Award winner (2019). She is currently producing a
documentary film on Gil Scott Heron and a AR/projection installation called As
of A Now. She is the author of P is for Pussy, an illustrated “children’s” book
and is featured in the new anthology How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field
Guide to Black Resistance released in March 2019. Her upcoming film, Back and
Song co-directed with Bradford Young will premiere at the Philadelphia
Contemporary in October 2019.
Posted: August 28, 2019, 4:17 PM
