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BRICKS LAID BY HAND: THE FILMS OF CHRISTOPHER HARRIS

September 21 – September 27

September 21-27, 2024

FILMMAKER IN PERSON!

Anthology is honored to present the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to the award-winning film artist Christopher Harris. Showcasing his uncompromising oeuvre – including films on 16mm, new restorations, and works that are premiering shortly beforehand at the Whitney Biennial 2024 – the retrospective demonstrates that Harris has created a succinct yet standout body of work over the past 25 years.

Harris is in a rare class of Black film artists who came of age at a shared moment and are now at the forefront of moving images in the 21st century. This includes such resounding names as Kevin Jerome Everson, Arthur Jafa, and Cauleen Smith, among others. Harris is the consummate slow chef among this cohort, with each work prepared on a precise and measured schedule, served up deftly on select occasions. With ten films and one moving image installation to his credit since the year 2000, Harris’s productivity is reserved – but if you know, you know: the oeuvre is sublime. Now, newly-minted as a full professor at Princeton University, his impact and influence are poised to spread exponentially. After more than two decades of dedicated activity in film, one gets the feeling that he is just getting started. Consider this tribute then not an act of looking back, but rather a forecast of the superlative things to come.

Organized by Greg de Cuir Jr., co-founder + artistic director of Kinopravda Institute in Belgrade, and curator of film programs for the Whitney Biennial 2024.

For more info about the screening taking place at the Whitney Biennial on Friday, September 20, visit: https://whitney.org/events/speaking-in-camouflage-harris

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