Screenings and Poetry Reading

Screening, March 21, four short films by Local Legend Films, with filmmaker Jayme Joyce, cinéma CGR Nanterre (200 allée de Corse, Nanterre)

1. “Restorative Justice, Filmmaking, and Social Enterprise: The Founding of Local Legend Films”
2. “A Spirit of Healing”
3. “A Case for Restorative Justice Explained”
4. “Let’s Talk Equity”

Jayme Joyce is an award-winning entrepreneur and Founder of social enterprise company Local Legend Films, a documentary film company committed to employing young people directly impacted by gun violence. 

Jayme has worked in various capacities on dozens of films, most notably as a camera operator for the Oscar-nominated documentary, Finding Vivian Maier. In addition, she was the second unit Assistant Director on the critically acclaimed documentary film, Girl Rising and a Producer on the authorized biopic, George Romero, An Independent Man, which premiered in Spain at the Sitges Film Festival in the fall of 2018. 

Currently, she is directing a restorative justice road trip film, Red Summer Project, and a producer of the film, Lead Never Follow, a documentary series about the Leaders streetwear brand.

Additionally, Jayme has juried the Chicago International Film Festival, worked for seven years at the Sundance Film Festival, and served on the board of the Chicago chapter of Women in Film for four years.

Poetry Reading, March 22, from 7 pm - Danny Hayward, Lisa Jeschke, Vicky Sparrow, 103b rue Gaston Lauriau, Montreuil.

Lisa Jeschke is a poet and performer living in Munich. Their publications include The Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women (Materials, 2018) and Anarcho-Boys* vs. Anachro-Cavalry Württemberg (Earthbound, 2021). They co-run the chapbook press Materials/Materialien, and make performance work with Lucy Beynon.

Vicky Sparrow is an Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Nottingham; she writes poems and lives in London. Her publications include Notes to Selves (Zarf Editions, 2016) and Stand Ins (RunAmok, 2023)

Screening, March 23, Spaces of Exception (2018), by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, cinéma CGR Nanterre (200 allée de Corse, Nanterre)

Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank. Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, it is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.

Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee, which has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities.

Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in New York City. He directed the documentary film Scenes from a Revolt Sustained (2014), and co-edited the books In the Name of the People (2018) and The Mohawk Warrior Society (forthcoming spring 2022).

Malek Rasamny is a researcher and filmmaker based between Paris and Beirut. He was a founding member of the LERFE space in Harlem and the Red Channels film collective, and is co-editor of the book The Mohawk Warrior Society (forthcoming spring 2022). He is currently working on a doctoral research project on reincarnation in post-war Lebanon at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

https://www.e-flux.com/film/421474/spaces-of-exception/