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Storyville – Black Comedy: The Surrealist Storytelling of Bryan Oliver Green

July 29, 2016 7:00 pm

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Scribe Video Center presents four short films by multimedia artist Bryan Oliver Green. The screening will take place at the Scribe Video Center as a part of Storyville, a monthly series showcasing the work of Philadelphia-based film and video makers. Green will be present at the screening.

Green’s films depict the beautiful and the surreal amid the chaos of the world we live in. Combining scathing social satire with unexpected beauty, the films explore Black experiences from rural Kentucky to urban Philadelphia, looking at everything from family traditions to police brutality.

– “The Philadelphia Bicycle Vignette Story” (2016, 8 min) is a series of comic vignettes, shot on 16mm, black and white film, that explores urban themes of homelessness, racism, public education, and the Black experience in Philadelphia.

– “Something in The Way of Things [In Town]” (2007, 9 min) is a haunting visual adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s poetry, depicting the lives, deaths and struggles of Black bodies.

– “William’s Plight” (2005, 5 min) is a look at racial profiling by the police department in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

– “A Variation on Three Funerals” (2006, 4 min) is an intimate view into the ritual of a family burying their elders in rural Jenkins, Kentucky.

Green’s film will be preceded by “I Do What I Do, So I Can Do What I Want” (1990, 4 min), a personal musing by Larry Moses about making a living cleaning while pursuing your dreams as an artist, and “I Do What I Want” (2014, 7 min), a glimpse into the lives of poets Ursula Rucker and Stephanie Renee by Olivia Haynes.

For more information, visit scribe.org. Free admission is made possible by FreeView, a program supported by PNC Arts Alive.

 

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