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Film screening of Tell Me a Memory, followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Jon Bryant Crawford.
Doors at 7 pm | Screening at 7:30 pm
Free and open to the public. Capacity is limited, and registration is required.
In 2018, filmmaker Jon Bryant Crawford was a Crosstown Arts resident artist. Jon used his time at Crosstown Arts to film interviews with anyone in the Queer community in Memphis willing to sit down and talk. Tell Me a Memory is the result of those sessions. Join Crosstown Arts and filmmaker Jon Bryant Crawford for a screening of Tell Me a Memory at Crosstown Theater. The screening will be followed with a panel discussion with Mr. Crawford.
FROM THE FILMMAKER: “I fell in love with a man in my early twenties who was older than I. His family had a history of dementia and Alzheimers. We were closeted, and I worried what would happen to our love story if he lost his memory. No one knew about us, and I wanted some marker of it in the world. Even if it was found years later, it would be something. I made a short film about that fear, and when the short played at festivals, other gay men told me their stories. I wanted a place to keep some of these memories, little things that might be overlooked, but are poetic and meaningful nonetheless, those little things I hear from other Queer folks I run into out in the world. When I had the opportunity to spend some time in Memphis, I wanted to try and capture stories from the community in a very undisrupted style, with us all just sharing, and place them in one place as a document for future generations.”
ABOUT JON BRYANT CRAWFORD is a filmmaker, writer, and photographer exploring the loneliness of American masculinity and the celebration of Queer resilience through the perspective of a gay, mixed-race Southerner. He studied experimental film at the SFAI before earning his MFA from the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television.
