There is a clearing inside a nondescript brick building on the corner of Perkins Avenue and East 40th Street in downtown Cleveland. It is not a grassy clearing that you might find in nature surrounded by trees, but a metaphorical “clearing” in the gallery space of Zygote Press. The exhibition, A Clearing: Word, Image, Body, takes “inspiration from the notion […]
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Last weekend at the Cleveland Cinematheque the makers of The Foreigner’s Home, a documentary about acclaimed writer and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, presented the film for the first time since Morrison’s death last summer. This somber fact made the film all the more powerful, as much of it features Morrison speaking directly to the camera, her words potent, compelling, urgent, and prescient. […]
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The Foreigner’s Home is author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s meditation on the role of artists as chroniclers, curators and critics of the collective soul of humanity. Cleveland director, producer, editor, animator and filmmaker Rian Brown directed the unusual documentary, a compilation of footage shot by Morrison’s son, Ford Morrison when she stepped in as guest curator of The Foreigner’s […]
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