Join the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts for a two-part event bringing together artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary and Frank B. Wilderson III, professor of African American Studies at UC Irvine and author of Afropessimism (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2020). The event will begin with a screening of Gary’s film The Giverny Document (2019) at 6 pm EST and will be immediately followed by a conversation between Gary and Wilderson at 7 pm EST. The conversation will be moderated by Aria Dean. This event is organized by graduate students in the Film and Visual Studies Ph.D. program in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in collaboration with the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts and marks the keynote presentation of the graduate conference (Im)possibility, ongoing from October 8 through October 10, 2020.

To watch a recording of the event, please visit the Carpenter Center's website.

Above: Ja'Tovia Gary, The Giverny Document (still), 2019. Single-channel. 41 min. Photo by Alex Bell. Courtesy of Ja'Tovia Gary.