All About Love Film Series: Shorts

This special three-part film series is presented in conjunction with our latest exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. Curated by BlackStar Film Festival founder Maori Karmael Holmes, each screening explores a theme reflected in All About Love—kinship, femininity, and desire.

Kinship is the focus of today’s short films, which include Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012), Mickalene Thomas’s directorial debut. These films explore the idea that what is past is also present and celebrate the art created by Black people across time. After the screening, a Q&A with some of the featured filmmakers will be moderated by James Claiborne, Fleischner Family Deputy Director for Community Engagement at the Barnes.

This program includes access to the Barnes collection and Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.