https://www.lightwork.org/archive/communities-of-care-documenting-reproductive-justice-in-a-post-roe-country/
Join Light Work in Watson Theater on Thursday, October 17 2024 for a screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of six feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade to document the impact of the ruling on their own communities. The program includes new work by award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs, who shot footage in Syracuse with local reproductive justice advocates from Layla’s Got You.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Đoan Hoàng, Raymond Rea, and Lynne Sachsas well as reproductive justice advocates J’viona Baker, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis, and Angela Stroman.
Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will also be served.
This event is FREE & OPEN to the public.
Street parking is available on Waverly and Comstock Avenue outside of the building.
This special event is held in conjunction with the exhibition of Sachs’ This Side of Salina at Light Work UVP’s architectural projection site on the Everson Museum facade October through December 2024.
Program Notes
A Mile and a Half (5:31), dir. Ray Rea
The border between North Dakota and Minnesota is physically only a narrow river but legislatively a canyon. In the sister city straddling that border a move of a mile and a half saved lives.
Contractions (12:00), dir. Lynne Sachs
In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, we listen to an OB-GYN who can no longer perform abortions and a “Jane” who drives patients across state lines while a group of activists perform outside a women’s healthcare clinic.
As Long as We Can (10:30), dir Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
As the Arizona state supreme court hears arguments on whether to reinstate an abortion ban that originated in 1864, we glimpse into the day-to-day activities of this for-now still functioning clinic, one of just two left in the state that provides surgical abortions.
Retracing Our Steps (8:30), dir. Kelly Gallagher
A woman reflects back on her time spent assisting abortion seekers when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land.
The Longest Walk (6:00), dir. Đoan Hoàng Curtis
A filmmaker returns in the wake of Kentucky’s total abortion ban to the site where she had an abortion on her own due to assault at age 13, and finds the male classmate who witnessed the aftermath of her assault decades earlier.
This Side of Salina (11:50), dir. Lynne Sachs
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.