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The Rest I Make Up: A conversation with Michelle Memran and Gabri Christa, moderated by Alice Reagan

A conversation with Michelle Memran and Gabri Christa. Moderated by Alice Reagan. Recorded on January 27, 2020 at Barnard College, NYC.

Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018) created astonishing worlds onstage. When she stopped writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer and filmmaker Michelle Memran (Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, Barnard College) reignited her visionary creative spirit, triggering a film collaboration that picked up where the pen left off.

The film is experimental in its storytelling, exploring the filmmaker and subject’s artistic exchange, mutual influence, and the co-constitution of story and memory. At the heart of this film, we see a dedication to a life and cultural legacy, and a friendship.

This event was sponsored by the Barnard Department of Theatre and BCRW.

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