Baltimore artist Elissa Blount Moorhead aims big with “AS OF A NOW,” the unique blend of animation and live action she is debuting at Light City tomorrow:
“I hope my work can articulate and re-present what I see as the multiplicity and nobility of every-day Black life trying to piece itself together,” she writes in the booklet accompanying the 15-minute film.
Projected onto a 10' x 7' replica of a vacant building, it’s a cross-sectioned view depicting “vernacular life, movements, and the ways people conduct familiar rituals such as family care, gathering, grooming, mourning, conflict, and celebration.”
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