Film and Electronic Arts Program Presents
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff - Screening of After Sherman followed by Q&A
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Synopsis5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah Geechee roots evolves into a poetic documentary weaving stories about generational wisdom, inheritance, faith, survival, and the tensions that define our collective American history, especially Black history. www.aftersherman.com
Bio
Jon-Sesrie Goff is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator. His creative practice explores the intersection of race, power, identity, gender, and the environment by unearthing the visceral representational value and authenticity behind the images propelled across varying diasporas. His body of work includes extensive institutional, community, and family archival research, visual documentation, and oral history. Jon engages with his work from the paradigm of a social change instigator. He studied sociology, economics, and theater at Morehouse College, completed his BA at The New School, along with an MFA from Duke University in experimental and documentary arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7253, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center