Carrboro Film Fest is proud to present a fascinating block of narrative shorts along with a presentation and discussion with acclaimed photographers Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor about their new book, Our Strange New Land: Narrative Movie Sets in the American South. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Harris and Sartor have created an immersive book, using still imagery to evoke their own cinematic-like narrative. Harris’s photographs, made on more than 40 film sets from across the South, reveal a new generation of Southern filmmakers coming to terms with matters of race, class, and sexuality. Together, Harris’s photographs and the accompanying films ask us to consider how much our setting shapes our behavior, and, more importantly, what power we have to resist our prescribed plotlines if they no longer serve us. We hope you leave the theater enriched by a look behind the camera and equipped with a renewed sense of agency in the story of your own life.

Included in this block:
Our Strange New Land (30:00)
Future Boys (11:43)
This Is Our Home (13:32)
Far West (9:25) 
How to Behave At a Party (1:57)
Free Noir Papillion (11:09)
Everythingeater (15:56)

"Our Strange New Land" is sponsored by the Film Studies program at UNC.

Masking and either proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test will be required to attend. Tickets available here.