The foreigner's home
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The foreigner's home
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
The foreigner's home
Runtime
56
Summary
Who IS the foreigner? Am I the foreigner in my own home? Who decides? Such were the questions posed by renowned author Toni Morrison at her 2006 guest-curated exhibit at the Louvre, "The Foreigner's Home". There she invited several renowned artists whose work also dealt with the experience of cultural and social displacement to join her in a public discussion that Morrison herself had been pursuing through her own research and writing. This film expands that discussion by integrating exclusive footage of the Nobel Laureate in dialogue with artists in 2006 with a sit-down conversation in her own home with fellow writer Edwidge Danticat in 2015. The film also draws on extensive archival film footage, musical performances, and animation to frame a series of candid exchanges about race, identity, and art's redemptive power. In this way, The Foreigner's Home explores the idea of "foreignness" and highlights art's crucial role in both understanding and addressing the increasingly urgent problems that surround it. FEATURED IN THE FILM Toni Morrison Edwidge Danticat, Writer Charles Burnett, Film Director Kendrick Lamar, Musician
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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Toni Morrison at the Louvre
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