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–age GFS students spend 10 weeks immersed in a study of The Huntington’s collections to create short films drawn from their own perspectives. These films reveal the continuing relevance of historical art to contemporary creativity.

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Everywhere & Nowhere (2023)

Ubiquitous, yet nonexistent. 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, naive curiosity, and—above all—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.