Summary
FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS (2023, 88 mins.) screening and discussion with directors Andres "Jay" Molina, Alexis Neophtides
MARCH 1 | 5PM | 19 UNIVERSITY PLACE ROOM 102
FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS (2023, 88 mins., Directors: Andres Jay Molina, Alexis Neophtides)
Screening of the documentary, Fire Through Dry Grass, followed by a Q&A with co-directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides, and POV Outreach & Impact Manager, Robert Salyer. Moderated by Dominic Bradley (Proclaiming Disability Arts).
This award-winning documentary chronicles the devastation experienced by residents of a NYC nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. The film takes viewers inside Coler, on Roosevelt Island, where director Jay Molina lives with his fellow Reality Poets, a group of mostly gun violence survivors. Instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and Brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased.
Co-sponsors:
NYU Center for Disability Studies
Proclaiming Disability Arts
NYU Department of Anthropology, Department of Cinema Studies, and Kanbar Institute of Film, Television and Media