Film Screenings at Digital GYM Cinema
This is a part of our partnership with Digital Gym Cinema where we show bi-monthly films about photographers on the big screen, all in a state-of-the-art theater with popcorn, candy, and any beverage your heart desires
June 13, 2024 at 7 PM
You are invited to a screening of Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), directed by artist, filmmaker, and writer, RaMell Ross. Ross, a photographer, was inspired by the work of William Christenberry and used the historic work of Walker Evans and James Agee to show a different side of Hale County, Alabama where the influential book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was created. Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
RaMell Ross is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and liberated documentarian. He has been awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Howard Foundation Fellowship, a USA Artist Fellowship and was a 2022 Solomon Fellow at Harvard University. His feature experimental documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and 2020 Peabody Award. It was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards and an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Film. RaMell holds degrees in Sociology and English from Georgetown University and is an associate professor in Brown University’s Visual Art Department. His work is in various public and private collections such as the Museum for Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the High Museum.
Medium Photo members pay just $9 admission ($12 general), with underground parking available. Advance purchase of tickets is recommended.
Previous screenings include:
April 11, 2024
A screening of Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014), coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the release of this film. This is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
Before the screening attendees enjoyed a Q&A with director, Thomas Allen Harris.
This screening was supported by the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art.
December 14th, 2023
A screening of Bill Cunningham New York included photo ops for participants who came dressed in Cunningham-inspired attire. Special sweets were available to guests upon arrival and complimentary Prosecco from the concession stand.
October 12, 2023
A screening of The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography with a talk back led by photographer Marshall Williams and Medium Photo program manager Lauren Matley.
August 10, 2023
A screening of Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning with a talk back led by director Dyanna Taylor and Medium Photo board president Kevin Miller.
June 15, 2023
An exclusive screening of Faces Places a film by Agnés Varda and contemporary French artist JR. After the film a talk back with JR collaborator and photographer Scott Bennett and professor Alain Lescartes.
April 6 & 8, 2023
The southern California premiere of GRAIN was included in the 2023 Medium Festival of Photography. GRAIN is a film by Alex Contell and Tomasso Sacconi that highlights photographers who choose to forgo the benefits of digital in favor of technology that is vulnerable to human error and chance. After the screening we hosted a talk back with the directors and audience members.