Patricia Zimmermann’s National Touring Exhibition We Tell at Anthology Film Archives in New York

03/03/20

Contributed by Karen Armstrong

The We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media national touring exhibition recently had a five-day run at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from December 12-17, 2019.  All six programs in the exhibition were screened with invited featured makers. 

 

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, co-programmed with Louis Massiah of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia.

 

We Tell is a national traveling exhibition of short documentaries produced by community media entities from 1967 to the present. It is programmed in six themes emerging in community media:  Body Publics, Collaborative Knowledges, Environments of Race and Place, States of Violence, Turf, and Wages of Work.

The exhibition features 41 media works from 36 diverse community-based producers, and works from 19 states and Puerto Rico.  

We Tell is supported through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation Just Films, and the Independence Public Media Foundation.

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