Art from Adversity
- Director: Robert Penn
CGiii Comment
The [unnecessary] soundtrack is detracts from a haphazard compilation of archival footage.
Important subject, not an important film.
Watch...
Short Documentary: Art from Adversity from Robert Penn on Vimeo.
The(ir) Blurb...
One of the many New York City community organizations that formed in response to the AIDS epidemic is a writers group for Black Gay Men. In honor of James Baldwin’s signature work, “Another Country”, the group selected the name Other Countries. It held its first writers workshop on June 14, 1986. Over the next year, it developed a three pronged program of peer critique, performance and publishing. In its 25 years, Other Countries has published three volumes of work by Black gay men and women. The most recent “Voices rising” came out in January 2007.