Detroit Film Theatre
SPECIAL EVENT: THE MEANING OF HOPE
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Detroit Film Theatre
The Meaning of Hope is a moving new twenty-minute
film by Bill Gaskins that extends his acclaimed work in photographic
portraiture into cinema, challenges the one-dimensional representations of the
City of Detroit through emphasis on the faces and voices of some of its
citizens, and expands the public’s knowledge of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
thoughts beyond his “I Have a Dream” speech. In 2011, Gaskins was the Endowed
Chair of Visual Art at Wayne State University when he developed the project.
This
special premiere of Mr. Gaskins’ film will be followed by an on-stage panel
discussion moderated by Valerie J. Mercer, DIA Curator of the General Motors
Center for African American Art. Panel participants will include filmmaker and
artist Bill Gaskins, poet, playwright and the 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist Bill
Harris, and DIA film curator Elliot Wilhelm. This event is sponsored by the Whitney
Foundation. Admission is free. (complete program approximately 90 min.)
Saturday, February 16 at 2:00 PM