Saturday, November 9, 2 – 4pm
Production still from Rebeca Huntt’s 1-800-Lovable.
$15; Barnes members, BlackStar members, and students free
About the Event
This special three-part film series is presented in conjunction with our latest exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. Curated by BlackStar Film Festival founder Maori Karmael Holmes, each screening explores a theme reflected in All About Love—kinship, femininity, and desire.
Desire is the focus of today’s short films, which showcase lush, joyful, and tender longing for a world beyond patriarchy. The screening will be followed by a conversation with some of the featured filmmakers moderated by broadcaster and producer Dyana Williams.
This program includes access to the Barnes collection and Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.
What’s On
Today’s short films relate to the theme of desire.
1-800-Lovable (2020)
Directed by Rebeca Huntt
Are you a single Black woman yearning to be loved and desired? 1-800-Lovable provides the je nais se quoi that makes dreams come true in this satirical short film shot on 16mm.
Duration: 2 min.
La Petite Mort (2009)
Directed by Numa Perrier
La Petite Mort travels the landscape of a woman’s loneliness and sensuality and shows how her femininity affects the male psyche.
Duration: 5 min.
An Ecstatic Experience (2015)
Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary
A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
Duration: 6 min.
Me Time (2019)
Directed by Iyabo Boyd
After a stressful workday, Deborah settles in for some intimate me time at home, until three other aspects of her psyche appear and dredge up deep-seated inhibitions.
Duration: 11 min.
A Song About Love (2019)
Directed by Rikkí Wright
A Song About Love explores the complex relationship between sexuality and religion and the filmmaker’s experience navigating redemptive love and finding themselves and real love within that paradigm.
Duration: 14 min.
Tender (2020)
Directed by Felicia Pride
After an unexpected one-night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives share an even more intimate morning.
Duration: 15 min.
To Be Free (2017)
Directed by Adepero Oduye
In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
Duration: 12 min.
Don’t miss our other All About Love film screenings:
Saturday, December 14: In the Morning
Saturday, January 11: Kinship Shorts
Partner
This film series is presented in collaboration with BlackStar Projects, an organization dedicated to creating spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working outside of the confines of genre.
Sponsors
Lead support for the All About Love Film Series is provided through the Comcast Center for Community Engagement at the Barnes.
Additional support is provided by The Clayman Foundation and Roberta Fine Dranoff.
Go Further
Mickalene Thomas:
All About Love
The first major international tour on Thomas’s pioneering work.
The Barnes Collection
See art differently. Explore paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and other artists beside African sculpture, metalwork, and decorative arts. Try our mobile guide!
November Spotlight Tour: Dreams of Arcadia: Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse
Explore the works of 19th- and early 20th-century artists who lived in a time of rapid industrialization and yearned for a return to nature.