Announcing the Release of “Salacia,” a New Film by Tourmaline
For Immediate Release
Tourmaline, artist, filmmaker, and Barnard Center for Research on Women Activist-in-Residence (2014-2018), is set to release two new 16mm short films: Salacia, a 6-minute looping film, and Mary of Ill Fame, a 25-minute short, starring Rowin Amone (previously DeJayé Joseph) as Mary Jones.
Salacia and Mary of Ill Fame tell the stories of a day in the life of Mary Jones (born in 1803), a black trans sex worker and outlaw in New York City in 1836. These films take place in Seneca Village, a free Black land-owning community and underground railroad stop in Upper Manhattan. A refuge for Black people and a threat to the white political establishment, Seneca Village existed from 1825 until 1857, when residents were forced out, displaced by the city’s plans for gentrification–the development of Central Park. Jones lived, worked, survived, and dreamed in the face of brutally enforced anti-Black racism and transphobia, and yet, as Tourmaline says, she made “a wayward way out of no way.”
Salacia will be screening on the High Line at 14th Street every night beginning at dusk from May 10-July 3, 2019, and at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the exhibit Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall from May 3-December 8, 2019.
The premiere of Mary of Ill Fame will be announced.
Salacia is co-commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum and High Line Art, presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
The High Line presentation of Salacia is curated by Melanie Kress, High Line Art Associate Curator.
The Brooklyn Museum exhibit, Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, is curated by Margo Cohen Ristorucci, Public Programs Coordinator; Lindsay C. Harris, Teen Programs Manager, Education; Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; Allie Rickard, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; and Lauren Argentina Zelaya, Acting Director, Public Programs, Brooklyn Museum. Its Resource Room is organized by Levi Narine, Teen Programs Assistant, InterseXtions and Special Projects, in collaboration with the curators.
Production Credits
Directed, written, and produced by Tourmaline; executive produced by Keanu Reeves; produced by BCRW Creative Director Hope Dector and Nina Macintosh. With production support from BCRW Research Assistants Asha Futterman, Em Chu Ying He, Sophie Kreitzberg, Emily Reed, and David Sierra, and administrative support from BCRW Senior Programs Assistant Pamela Phillips. This project received additional material, development, and administrative support from the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Additional film credits below.
About the Filmmaker
Tourmaline is an activist, filmmaker, and writer. Her work highlights the capacity of Black queer and trans people and communities to make and transform worlds. In her films, Tourmaline creates dreamlike portraits of people whose stories tell the history of New York City, including gay and trans liberation activists, drag queens, and queer icons Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (Happy Birthday Marsha, co-directed with Sasha Wortzel, 2018), Miss Major (The Personal Things, 2016), and Egyptt LaBeija (Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017). Tending to the histories and haunts of disabled, poor, Black, queer, and trans life that echo and vibrate beneath neighborhoods and cultural landmarks, Tourmaline’s films undulate between narrative and non-narrative and illuminate the mundane acts that form the fabric of historical events and mutually supportive communities.
About the Barnard Center for Research on Women
The Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) brings scholars and activists together through its working groups, public events, publications, and multimedia projects to advance intersectional social justice feminist analyses and to promote social transformation. BCRW is committed to vibrant and engaged research, pedagogy, art, and activism, supporting the work of scholars and activists to create new knowledge and to challenge and refine how we understand the world around us. Since its founding in 1971, the BCRW has cultivated collaborative and accountable relationships with community organizations, activists, and cultural workers in New York City, across the US, and transnationally. From its signature annual Scholar and Feminist Conference to its peer-reviewed journal The Scholar and Feminist Online, unique collection of feminist social movement ephemera (housed in the Barnard College Archives), constantly expanding video archive, and recently inaugurated Social Justice Initiative, BCRW remains committed to critical feminist engagement with the academy and the world.
SALACIA CREDITS
Written, Directed, Produced by Tourmaline
Produced by Hope Dector and Nina Macintosh
Executive Produced by Keanu Reeves
Starring Rowin Amone with Christopher James Murray, Eva Reign, and Frank Woods
Director of Photography Kjerstin Rossi
Production Designer Josephine Shokrian
Editor Zoie Omega
Co-Producers Matt Harvey, Zoie Omega, Kjerstin Rossi
Associate Producer Luce Capco Lincoln
Costume Designer Tess Herbert
Original Music by Geo Wyeth
CAST
Mary Jones – Rowin Amone
Peter Dermot – Christopher James Murray
Fernando Woods – Frank Woods
Anne Waters – Eva Reign
Jupiter – Harry Aspinwall
Cop 2 – Philip John Trossarello Jr.
Cop 3 – Scott Watson
Seneca Villagers – Lehna Huie, Simone Octavia Huie Durant, Max-André Kajou Valbrune, Yanic Emmanuel Valbrune
Working Girls – Aaryn Lang, Maya Monès, Natasha Tori, Vachensky Vieux
People in Cell – William Howard Blair, Divad Durant, Asha Futterman
Prison Guard – Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, Cat Kubo
First Assistant Director Ariel Mahler
Second Assistant Director Tae Braun
Script Supervisor Anthony Louis Lee
First Assistant Camera Nicalena Iovino
Second Assistant Camera Matt Harvey and Natalie Tsui
Gaffer Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
Key Grip Brian de la Cruz
Electric Warut Snidvongs
Additional Grip Ryan Colletti
Grip and Electric Swing Erin Bailey
Special Effects Cinematographer Zoie Omega
Special Effects Gaffer Vance Spicer
Special Effects S.O. O’Brien
Steadicam Jordan Tetewsky
Sound Mixers S.O. O’Brien, Elizabeth Rakhilkina, Pat Zimmon
Set Decorator Anne Cousineau
Leadman Ehm West
Prop Master Vita Kurland
Set Dresser Charlie Mai
Set Dresser Mariana Sanchez Bueno
Set Dresser Melissa Belardo
Greenskeeper Gareth Stacke
Greens Assistant James Scales, Chloe Smith, Zach Strein
Graphic Designer Dana Bishop-Root
Costume Assistants Rhylli Ogiura and Tyler Okuns
Key Makeup Artist Dotty Peterson
Hair Artist Andrita Renee
Stunt Coordinators Travis Staton-Marrero and Natalie Strasser
Catering Harvest & Revel
Production Assistants Craig Almquist, Rhi Collins, Divad Durant, Asha Futterman, Edda Gonzalez, Em Chu Ying He, Sophie Kreitzberg, Luce Capco Lincoln, Rhea Parimoo, Emily Reed, David Sierra, Jade Ureña
Special Effects Guest Camera Directors Rowin Amone, Melissa Belardo, Tae Braun, Mercer Dector, Divad Durant, Luce Capco Lincoln, Nina Macintosh, Ariel Mahler, Danyelle Minor, S.O. O’Brien, Rhea Parimoo, David Sierra, Natalie Strasser, Natalie Tsui
Additional Editing Adam Knowles
Re-Recording Mixer Isaac S. Derfel
Colorist Marika Litz
Storyboard Artist Tiffanie Young
Animation Mores Mcwreath
Graphics Dana Bishop-Root and Leslie Stem
Titles Virgil B/G Taylor
Prose excerpt from “The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton
With permission granted from Arnold Adoff
Archival Footage and Video Stock courtesy of Adobe Stock, Axiom Images, Denver Open Media, NASA, New York Public Library, Prelinger Archives, Stocksy
Shot on location at Seneca Village, present day Central Park, the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, and Castle Williams Prison, Governors Island
With Support From
Brooklyn Museum
High Line
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Thank You
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