October 10 – December 21, 2024
Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
401 Harrison Street, Syracuse NY
Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition of This Side of Salina by filmmaker Lynne Sachs exploring reproductive justice from October 12 – December 21 at our architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade in downtown Syracuse.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Sachs will be present for the special event Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country in Watson Theater at Light Work (on the SU campus) on Thursday, October 17 at 5:30pm.
This Side of Salina
HD video and stereo sound
Duration: 11:50
2024
Four Black women from the gritty and tenacious city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all of her life. Two performers flip through classic 1960s titles by Black authors in a bookstore. Others sit in a hat store finding time to pour into each other, as mentors and confidantes. These are businesses that are owned by local Black women, and they know it. In Brady Market, a community grocery, they playfully shop and chat with ease and confidence. They dance to their own rhythms in the outdoor plaza of the Everson Museum of Art. Together they look down at the city from its highest point and ponder how to battle the inequities of the place that they call home.
Commissioned by Light Work as part of the UVP Residential Media Commission program
CREDITS
Featuring: J’Viona Baker, Vernahia Davis, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Angela Stroman
Director: Lynne Sachs
Cinematographers: Anneka Herre, Lynne Sachs, Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Monae Kyhara Sims
Editor: G. Anthony Svatek
Production support: Minnie S. McMillian, Devon Narine Singh, Hilary Warner
Additional recording: Saptarshi Lahiri
Sound Design: Kevin T. Allen
In consultation with Tiffany Lloyd, Director of Women’s Health and Empowerment, Allyn Foundation Campaign Manager, Layla’s Got You
Shot on location in Syracuse, New York at Black Citizens Brigade, Brady Market, The Classic Bop Hat Boutique, Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza, and Upper Onondaga Park