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Jacqueline Olive presented Always in Season, which premiered in competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency. Visual/Sound/Walls, our opening night concert, blended the work of North Carolina musicians with the visual styling of a video jockey. A mashup of hip music videos were projected onto more than a dozen screens for an immersive experience – a seamless flow of ear-pleasing, eye-popping entertainment. Thomas F. DeFrantz’s reVERSE-gesture-reVIEWed explored the provocation of Kara Walker’s “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War” series with shadowplay, dance, and image subtraction technology. Tom Whiteside’s It is Time installation was a spatially adventurous film program about time, with many films more than 100 years old as well as more recent wonders.
