Contact for more informationįILMMAKERS' STATEMENT: " Despite Morrison's incalculable cultural and social influence, no non-fiction motion pictures exist that seriously engage her work and ideas. He also directs StoryLens, a non-profit organization that produces short independent documentary films about pression social issues in order to promote education, encourage public dialogue, and facilitate political change. New Toni Morrison Documentary, The Foreigner’s Home, Explores The Meaning Of Belonging. Mellon Foundation and the Ford foundation's Just Films initiative for the production of The Foreigner's Home.ĭirector/Producer/Editor/Writer Geoff Pingree serves as a Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College. The Foreigner’s Home is a documentary film that is grounded in footage shot at the Louvre in November 2006, when the African American writer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison was. Morrison was invited by the Louvre in Paris to curate an exhibition. The film starts with footage from 2006 when Ms. In 2015, she and colleague Geoff Pingree weere awarded grants from both the Andrew W. The Foreigner’s Homeis a compelling and poetic film that explores two central concepts in Toni Morrison’s work the foreignerand the home.
Her overall work focuses on women's issues, social justice, and experimenting with new forms of animation and time-based art. Directed by Rian Brown and Geoffrey Pingree of Oberlin College, the documentary The Foreigner’s Home features intimate interviews and footage shot by Morrison’s son Ford during her 2006 exhibit that she co-curated at the Louvre, also titled The Foreigner’s Home. Director/Producer/Editor/Animator Rian Brown is also an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College. Toni Morrison In 1993, she was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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