Billy Gerard Frank has worked as a writer, director, and production designer since 2005, after studying filmmaking and media arts at The New School University and NYU. He works alongside producer Lauren Beck, best known for her work on the critically-acclaimed Manchester by the Sea. This event will feature an introduction by both Frank and Beck, as well as a Q&A session with them after the screening.
The film, Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap, was recently featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale. Here is a brief description of the film by Billy Gerard Frank:
Second Eulogy: Mind The Gap is an autobiographical de-construction and re-positioning of memories from my father’s life— memories to which I give a voice by de-contextualizing and de-constructing the mythologies and legacies of the present/ absent one. The collection comprises a one channel video installation set centrally in Grenada, accompanied by multi-media collages on canvas and paper. It sketches multiple evocative vignettes, forms, and possibilities of narratives that ruminate on themes of exile, migration, colonialism, and sexuality.