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Join The Artist Odyssey, in partnership with Museum of Photographic Arts, for the premiere screening of From Haarlem to Harlem, a short film about photographic artist Alanna Airitam. The 20-minute film will be followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A featuring Alanna Airitam and filmmakers Barbarella and David Fokos.
Film Summary: Fatigued by incessant news of black people being shot and killed, and with the election as the final straw, artist Alanna Airitam decided create a body of work to portray black people as she knows them to be, which is far from the media's persistently negative narrative. “I was tired of the narrative that we aren’t worthy of being treated with respect, that we aren’t beautiful, that we don’t belong,” she says. Alanna set out to prove these negative messages false with images that reveal the “true grace, pride, beauty, power, and strength” of black people in the face of all they have suffered.
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