Ghetto Film School + Huntington Partnership

Ghetto Film School (GFS) is an award-winning nonprofit founded in 2000 to educate, develop, and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. Through a partnership between GFS and The Huntington (four years running), high school and early college-aged GFS students spend ten weeks immersed in a study of the Art Museum’s collections to create short films drawn from their own perspectives. Inspired by The Huntington’s collections, these films reveal the continuing relevance of historical art to contemporary creativity.

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Everywhere & Nowhere (2023)

Ubiquitous, yet non-existent. Idolized, yet ostracized. Sanctified, yet demonized.
Inspired by the Huntington’s collections and reflecting on the theme of “Everywhere & Nowhere,” the GFS Fellows constructed Visual Portraits of a person, place or thing that exists uniquely in their world, examining the things around them with humility, respect, and naive curiosity, and above all, with love. What does it mean to be everywhere and nowhere? With the acquisition of Mercedes Dorame’s “Smoke to Water'' in the Borderlands exhibition and the inclusion of Njideka Akunyili Crosby “The Beautyful Ones,” the class theme — “Everywhere & Nowhere” — correlates to the dualities of erasure and preservation within a society, culture, and urban history.