As part of the Windows of Understanding 2019 programming, on Monday, February 25 from 6-8pm we will be hosting a very special event at Mason Gross/Bloustein featuring a film by Rutgers Art & Design Faculty member Natalie Bookchin, on the topic of homelessness followed by a panel discussion also featuring representatives from SHILO, a local organization working to serve the homeless in New Brunswick and Highland Park. One of our goals for the Windows project is to highlight voices that are not typically heard, and this program is meant to illuminate perspectives around homelessness from both the West coast and our own backyard.
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION on Homelessness:
"Long Story Short"
hosted by the Windows of Understanding project
Monday, February 25 from 6 - 8pm
In the moving and immersive film LONG STORY SHORT, over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area in Northern California discuss their experiences of poverty: why they are poor, how it feels, and what they think should be done about American poverty and homelessness today. Numerous interviews are stitched together to form a polyphonic account of American poverty told from the inside.
MacArthur Grantee and Mason Gross Faculty Member Natalie Bookchin, an artist whose work has been shown at the Pompidou Centre, the Whitney Museum and the Tate, uses the film to amplify the voices of the displaced and dispossessed. While individuals whom Bookchin filmed in separate spaces appear onscreen in their own visual spaces, mirroring the isolation of their experiences, words flow between them like a musical ensemble. Together in the film for the first time, Americans who are rarely acknowledged or listened to form a virtual collective.
Discussion to follow featuring Natalie Bookchin and guest speakers from SHILO (Supporting Homeless and Innovatively Loving Others). This event is FREE and open to the public.
Civic Square Building, James J. Florio Forum / Rutgers University
33 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ
Wheelchair accessible.
https://www.windowsofunderstanding.org/