Love, Crush, Anger, Institution
by Asa Mendelsohn

Mendelsohn’s Birmingham exhibition will take form as film screenings and community workshops.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion:
Wednesday, June 7, 7-8:30pm  at Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema

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Workshops (details below):
Tuesday, June 6, 6-8pm

Thursday, June 8, 6-8pm

Asa Mendelsohn is from New York, where he writes and makes videos – sometimes in collaboration with high school students – and teaches gender and sexuality classes. His work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Asa is also a social work student and co-facilitates support groups at The LGBT Center. These practices connect through close listening and within relationships that teach him about love and power.

THE FILM

Pasture

In Mendelsohn’s film, Pasture (2022, 36 minutes, digital video, English and Spanish) a grassroots movement successfully resists private military development near the US-Mexico border in Southern California, where a trans New Yorker arrives in pursuit of an unlikely coalition. Pasture combines history, diary, and performance to intimately inquire into big questions about power, place, and what it takes to change.

Wednesday, June 7, 7pm

Screening at Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema

followed by a panel discussion

THE WORKSHOP

Love, Crush, Anger, Institution

As we turn our attention to institutions, we might think about social and political institutions like schools, bathrooms, prisons, families, medical institutions, immigration institutions, museums, and others. We will consider ongoing legislative and cultural attacks on our bodily autonomy: access to healthcare, and autonomy for LGBTQIA+ people, women, and those who love them.

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