If You Break the Skin, You Must Come In
Tomorrow night, the much-awaited (okay, I don’t actually know if it is much-awaited, as this is the first I’m hearing about it, but I do think it’s awfully darn cool) documentary about local photographer, Zoe Strauss, will be given a pre-release screening at the Institute for Contemporary Art (36th and Sansom). It is called If You Break the Skin, You Must Come In.
I first learned about Zoe’s work over on Albert’s blog (I think this was the first post I noticed) sometime last year and have paid attention every time I’ve heard her name since. There’s something about her shots that pull you in and push you away all at once, which for me is a valuable experience to have with art.
The documentary was a project of The Big Picture Alliance Youth Media Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania which makes it just that much cooler in my book.
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WOW!!!
i must say i was inspired by this movie.
Zoe Strauss brings the power of the Artists vision to inspire and lift troubled teens from the forces that hold them down… it made me proud to live in philadelphia where great things can happen.
it’s a “must see”!
Thanks Marisa for posting an alert for the shotgun screening we had of If You Break the Skin You Must Come In. I was the director of If You Break the Skin. Yes, it was much-awaited. Although a relatively short time had past since the completion of the film, the question of whether anyone was going to be allowed to see it hung over our heads for what felt like an eternity. The sensation of showing it was first relief and then elation when i started to sense the audience’s response.
And thank you also Mr. Reed. I am also proud to live in Philadelphia.
If anyone else reading this was at the screening, the film can still needs public support for Zoe and I and the rest of the people that worked on the film to get it out where it needs to be. go to zoestrauss.blogspot.com and write a quick comment where zoe asks you to. It would mean a lot.