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Screenings
Dallas, 2019 is an intimate, experiential and observational five-part series that studies and reveals how citizens are socialized, shaped and formed within a society. Filmed in pre-pandemic Dallas, Texas, the series follows the lives of public representatives — a Dallas County Court Commissioner, the Dallas City Manager, the DISD Superintendent and Dallas County Sheriff, the Chief Medical Examiner, the Dallas County District Attorney and the Dallas County Director of Health and Human Services, among others — and the varied constituents they represent. This screening will feature episodes two, three and four of the series, with a short intermission after episode three.
Directors Spotlight
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Darius Clark Monroe
Artist
Monroe’s documentary and fictional films surface intimate, interior lives and under-acknowledged histories. He is interested in human behavior within the many structures of society’s laws, rules, and mores and how they influence both a public and private sense of self—“pulling at the interior life and bringing it to the surface.” His works include the four-part short film series Racquet, which meditates on tennis players and their communities; the short documentary Black 14, about the media coverage of college football players at the University of Wyoming who protested against racial injustice in 1969; and the autobiographical documentary feature Evolution of a Criminal, which examines the aftereffects of a bank robbery.
- Runtime 155 minutes
- Country United States
- Language English
- Director Darius Clark Monroe
- Cinematographer Christine Ng
- Composer Gigi Masin
- Editor Doug Lenox
- Executive Producer Darius Clark Monroe, Seth Gordon, Noland Walker, Lois Vossen
- Producer Alon Simcha, Crystal Isaac, Akil Gibbons, Shana Swanson
- Sound Design Eli Cohn
- Premiere World