Chris Emile and Jackson Kroopf present MEND, a meditative short film that traces performances of masculinity through interview, cinema, and contemporary dance. What are the locations and sounds that inform a boy’s perspective on being a man? What performances of maleness does one observe, internalize, and translate into versions of a male self? What conflicts arise between personal intuition and socially enforced norms? In the process of exploring the questions, the dancer internalizes the voices of real boys and men as his own memories, and reclaims each space with his movement.
For this event, Chris Emile and Jackson Kroopf have designed an interactive performance prologue to accompany the film. The performance and screening will be followed by a conversation with Chris Emile and Jackson Kroopf, moderated by Jheanelle Brown.
