Free NYC Screening: PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE by Catherine Gund
passerby is partnering with Aubin Pictures on a free screening of the new documentary at Film Forum
In partnership with Aubin Pictures, we are excited to invite you to a free screening of PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE by Catherine Gund at Film Forum, this Sunday, February 9th at 12:20 pm.
passerby is thrilled to partner on a film that depicts the powerful story of formerly incarcerated artist and musician Mary Elizabeth Enoch Baxter, who we interviewed last year, on the big screen.
This event is exclusive to passerby club members* (subscribe here).
“A poignant protest against mass incarceration… [that] navigates the trail-blazing nature of [Faith] Ringgold’s career and how [Mary Enoch Elizabeth] Baxter, the younger artist, followed in Ringgold’s footsteps as a practitioner of Black radical art… By showcasing Baxter’s art alongside Ringgold, the film dynamically invokes how contemporary artists have historically attempted to address systemic injustices Black people face in society.” — Akané Okoshi, The Brooklyn Rail
PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE explores the movement to end the mass incarceration of Black women via the fight to save Faith Ringgold’s 1971 painting “For the Women’s House,” which was originally commissioned for display at Rikers Island. Ringgold’s piece depicts the dreams and realities of women in detention based on real conversations and interviews. Over the decades, it was defaced, painted over, mishandled, and placed in deep storage until finally being restored in 1999.
The film follows the efforts of numerous artists, philanthropists, and corrections officers to liberate the original painting and relocate it to the Brooklyn Museum, where it now resides as a piece of history and a call for justice. Gund most notably follows Baxter, who readers may recognize from our interview in June.
Watch the trailer here. And revisit our interview with Mary Elizabeth Enoch Baxter below:
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