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I Snuck Off The Slave Ship: Film Screening + Q&A

  • Fine Arts Theatre 36 Biltmore Avenue Asheville, NC, 28801 United States (map)
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Join us after the screening for a live interview with artist, musician, and filmmaker Lonnie Holley.

Acclaimed artist Lonnie Holley's film I Snuck Off The Slave Ship premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019. It was created with Cyrus Moussavi, Brittany Nugent and Matt Arnett, and features cameo appearances by gospel singer and pianist Theotis Taylor and the Edeliegba Senior Dance Ensemble. The film accompaniment of Holley's song of the same name from the 2018 album MITH, was shot around his hometown in Atlanta, GA, and is the artist's directorial debut. “Temporal talismans” guide Holley through the Black American experience -- but his freedom quest always seems to get trapped in the same point of discontinuum: the 4th of July, birthdate of the self-replicating slave ship, ‘America’. Built from the scraps of his life and hard sci-fi alterna-realities, the short film is an assemblage of Holley’s encounters with the slave ship ‘America’ and a testament to imagination as resistance.

US | 20 min

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Matt Arnett is an art historian, filmmaker, music producer, and curator, whose primary interest is in the art and culture of the African American South.

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LONNIE HOLLEY
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Lonnie Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood.

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