VINTAGE: Families of Value

Thomas Allen Harris will be screening his groundbreaking film VINTAGE: Families of Value (1995) as part of his course “Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts” (AFAM 216/FLM 433). The project marks the beginning of Harris’s participatory and co-creative model of filmmaking and community storytelling.

VINTAGE: Families of Value is a refreshing experiment in community storytelling that serves as an up-close-and-personal celebration of queer Black intimacy. Three pairs of queer Black siblings—including Thomas Allen Harris and his brother, artist Lyle Ashton Harris—each document their families from separate angles. The result is a compassionate yet candid family video album, interwoven with tender and difficult conversations on parent-child relationships, gender identity, and coping with HIV and the AIDS pandemic.

The film will be screened as a 16mm projection and will be open to all Yale affiliates.

Sponsored by African American Studies, Film and Media Studies, CCAM, and Whitney Humanities Center
Poster