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Atlanta Film Festival Tara Theatre - George Auditorium May 2nd, 12:45pm Followed by Q&A with Co-Director Mariah Norman |
Art Matters Foundationin Partnership with Aubin Pictures:ELISSA BLOUNT MOORHEAD & MARILYN NANCE IN CONVERSATION |
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What does it mean for an artist to attend to the tangible and intangible facets of cultural memory? Marilyn Nance and Elissa Blount Moorhead address this question in distinct ways, each making work that takes shape in and through the archive.
Nance is renowned for her meticulous personal collection spanning decades of negatives, photographs, contact sheets, and ephemera—physical artifacts documenting the cultural history of the United States and the African Diaspora throughout the late twentieth century.
Blount Moorhead is currently working on Perfect Memory Radio, a deep listening project “charting the waters of Black memory, culture, and place,” drawing primarily upon sound and music.
Together, they steward the archive of their late friend, Valerie J. Maynard.
This conversation brings Nance and Blount Moorhead together as friends and collaborators, reflecting on methods and strategies for resisting erasure and honoring Black presence in everyday life. A Q&A/discussion with guests will follow. |
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30 Years of Aubin:Films From the Archive |
As part of our 30th Anniversary commemoration, we will be making the most of the Aubin film library by bringing the entire collection to streaming!
Our remaining films will now be made available on KINEMA!
This month, we've dropped A Touch of Greatness, Making Grace, and On Hostile Ground!
See below for all other streaming options. |
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Originally aired on Independent Lens, and nominated for Best Documentary Emmy, A TOUCH OF GREATNESS (2004) is a bolt of lightning disguised as a documentary. Director Leslie Sullivan and producer Catherine Gund train their lens on Albert Cullum, a force-of-nature elementary school teacher who blew the roof off Rye, New York public schools by handing Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Whitman directly to seven-year-olds and compelling them to feel it.
The film's secret weapon is its ravishing, grain-soaked 16mm black-and-white film shot in 1964 by the legendary Robert Downey Sr.; images so alive and strange they feel like they were smuggled out of another dimension.
Woven through the archival material are TV broadcast fragments from the era and deeply emotional contemporary interviews with Cullum himself and the now-grown, devoted students whose lives he permanently altered. Together they make the case that one radical, wildly imaginative teacher is an act of historical consequence. |
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MAKING GRACE (2004) follows Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan who want to be mothers — together. There’s one problem though: neither of them has any sperm. Making Grace follows the humorous, strange, and highly emotional rollercoaster that is Ann and Leslie’s journey to making a family.
You can also watch Grace Krsul's video MY NEW FAMILY TREE FC, where she talks about being a donor-conceived child and her newly-discovered extended family.
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Their ranks are shrinking rapidly. With violence against abortion providers steadily increasing, three abortion providers are forced to evaluate the obstacles that impede their job, safety, and health every day. On Hostile Ground documents their struggles without the help of a narrator; their stories are intertwined seamlessly. By weaving together three very different character portraits, On Hostile Ground (2000) takes a unique approach to a volatile social conflict, portraying abortion through the personal stories of those who are in mortal danger because they provide the service. |
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Our Other Films andWhere to Find Them |
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Mariah at Cleveland Film Fest:PANEL | Documentary Subjects: What Happens to Them After your Shoot |
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Mariah Norman, director of AND AGAIN I DREAM alongside Cat, spoke on a panel about their experience making AND AGAIN I DREAM at Cleveland International Film Festival.
Listen to what they had to say! |
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AND AGAIN I DREAM Shows at Yale University |
Catherine joins Prof. Thomas Allen Harris' Class: Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling |
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Prof. Thomas Allen Harris, Catherine Gund, and Melissa Barton (Beinecke Library). |
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Cat & Melissa with Yale students. |
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Bat-Ami Rivlin:"Untitled (radiators, zip ties)" in the New York Times |
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Bat-Ami Rivlin--who used to work at Aubin--had her piece, "Untitled (radiators, zip ties)," featured in the New York Times article "Art Gallery Shows to See in March."
Will Heinrich writes, "'Untitled (radiators, zip ties)' is a work of conceptual art... you can see how much thought Rivlin put into the aesthetics of this..." |
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Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth is a gothic novel set in a small Irish town in 1965. The story explores themes of secrecy, suspense, and sapphic obsession. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys suspense, unreliable narrators, or looking for a queer period piece to sink their teeth into. |
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The Maysles Documentary Center is having a free screening of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution on Wednesday, May 6th @ 7PM. Followed by the post-screening discussion with Prof. Calvin Smiley (Hunter College) and Alex Mitchell (Bard Prison Initiative graduate).
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION unfolds like a recovered memory, equal parts fire and testimony. Through intimate interviews with those who lived the movement and electrifying, restored archival footage, the film captures the Panthers at full voltage, disciplined, charismatic, and under relentless surveillance. What emerges is not just a history, but a pulse: the rhythm of a revolution that still echoes. |
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The Schomburg Center’s Black on Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture which highlights 100 years of local and transnational Black movement work and artistic evolution on film, will feature a selection of short and feature-length films that Lisa Cortés has directed and/or produced.
The program will take place on Thursday, May 14, from 2:00–8:30 pm, where Cortés will also be in conversation with Denise Greene, Director of Programs at Black Public Media. |
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Frame by Frame: 30 Years of Magicwhat you can expect |
2026 is an exciting year for Aubin as we celebrate our 30th Anniversary!
Our 30th Anniversary programming includes screenings, convenings, celebrations, and more! We are celebrating our work across our FIVE PILLARS: Studio (documentary filmmaking to transform narratives); Impact (justice-oriented campaigns to amplify urgent issues); Workshop (fiscal sponsorship, project incubation, and community events); Lab (mentorship and training); and Rewind (uncovering and activating our past work and shared history).
Over the course of this year, we are working to inspire, learn, and scale Aubin Pictures’s model for storytelling for social change in its next 30 years.
Help us launch our Aubin 30 campaign by watching this wonderful sizzle reel of the amazing work that the Aubin team has been able to accomplish since 1996! |
Aubin 30 Sizzle Reel with clips from more than 20 of our films! |
“This is, indeed, poetry.” - The New York Times
“A gorgeous, quietly energetic, and moving meditation..” - The New Yorker |
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Watch the MEANWHILE Trailer |
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