The Foreigner's Home- Toni Morrison at the Louvre

The Foreigner's Home- Toni Morrison at the Louvre

The Foreigner’s Home is a film that explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison
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Overview

Genre
Arts, Human Rights, Foreign Worlds, Cultural History, and Social Issues
Synopsis

The Foreigner’s Home is a feature-length documentary film that explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison through “The Foreigner’s Home,” the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre. Morrison invited renowned artists whose work also deals with the experience of cultural and social displacement to join her in a public conversation that she had been pursuing for years through her own research and writing and in her teaching at Princeton University. The film expands that conversation, combining exclusive and unreleased footage of the Nobel Laureate in dialogue with artists—first, in Paris in 2006 and then, in 2015, at her home in New York state—with extensive archival film footage, music, and still images to present a series of candid and incisive exchanges about race, identity, “foreignness,” and art’s redemptive power.

Stage
finished
Running time
60 minutes

Credits

Production Details

Prod. Co.
Ice Lens Pictures/ Clinica Estetico
Country
United States
Years of Production
2015-2018
Locations
New York, Paris
Prod. Partners
Jonathan Demme

Distribution Details

Release year
2018
Festivals
IFFR, Miami International Film Festival, DC International Film FestAshland International Film Fest, Brooklyn Museum of Art, LA Hammer, Los Angeles,Boston Museum of Fine Arts, BFI London Film Festival British Film Institute,Harlem International Film Festiv
Distribution
The Video Project
Broadcast (Prod.)
Amazon Prime, Kanopy,
Broadcast (Acq.)
Amazon Prime, Kanopy
Language
English/French
Subtitles
English, Italian, French

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