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Garrett Bradley: Part of Assembly of Images Film Series
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Garrett Bradley works across documentary, narrative, and experimental modes of filmmaking to explore realities of contemporary life and bring to light lost histories. Her growing body of work — including the recent documentary Time (2020), a stunning portrait of a family separated by the prison system — addresses issues of race, class, family, social justice, Southern culture, and the history of film in the United States. Co-presented with San Francisco Cinematheque.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The third section of a three-month series on histories of race and the representations of Black Americans in cinema and photography shines a light on the work of Garrett Bradley. She’s the stellar talent behind the recent doc, “Time,” a moving portrait of a family stressed by the prison system. Addressing the country’s racist past through vignettes of moments in Black history and weaving documentary, narrative and experimental techniques, “America,” shown here, was inspired by silent movies and “Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913), the first known film with an all-Black cast.
Sura Wood
Contributing Writer, Film
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States and a thriving cultural center for the Bay Area.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States and a thriving cultural center for the Bay Area.