Courtney Jones: Suspended in Dance
This film features dancer and choreographer Courtney Jones as she swirls through the air and mist in downtown Houston at 1000 frames per second. It is a mediation on dance and movement in the fraction of a moment and explores the beauty of dance concealed by time.
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Rediscover The Menil Collection
This film was produced for The Menil Collection in concert with their re-opening in 2018 after being closed for 6 months for updates and repairs. The reopening of the museums allowed the curators of the museum to also reimagine the galleries and how to present the permanent collection.
Produced by Delicia Harvey
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
The Beacon: Restoring Dignity
Hope comes in many forms. In Houston one of those forms is The Beacon, a non profit that serves Houston’s homeless community by providing meals, showers legal help, housing assistance and medical care. In this film you can hear from members of the Beacon family about the journey from the streets to their own homes.
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Francis Alÿs: The Fabiola Project
This documentary features curator Lynne Cooke and artist Francis Alÿs discussing The Fabiola Project, currently installed in the repurposed Byzantine Fresco Chapel of the Menil Collection. The project consists of more than 450 found reproductions of a lost 1885 painting of 4th-century Roman Saint Fabiola depicted in left-facing profile wearing a red headscarf by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner.
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
The Price of Stargazing
This film is a collaboration with Donald Val about his beautiful poem, "The Price of Stargazing." The poem explores what it means to say good by to your childhood and face an uncertain but exciting future.
Written by Donal Val
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries
This is a trailer for a feature length documentary about the rise of the Houston Ballet. The story begins with the artistic directorship of a former Ballets Russes dancer, Tatiana Semenova in 1955 and ends six decades later with the company's current visionary artistic director, Stanton Welch.
Produced and written by Delicia Harvey
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Food as Medicine
This short film is about an urban farm near LBJ Hospital in Houston, Texas in a neighborhood considered a food desert. Farmer Becca Vern turned this unused land into a productive farm, yielding fresh fruits and vegetables for patients of LBJ that suffer from diabetes to supplement their medical treatment. Seeing food and medicine working hand-inihand is inspiring.
Produced by Delicia Harvey
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
This short film was commissioned by the Menil Collection to tell the story of the first major solar exhibition in 20 years of artist Mona Hatoum (curated by Michelle White). In this film Hatoum discusses how her work addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world, one that is as technologically networked as it is politically fractured by war and exile.
Produced by Delicia Harvey
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers
Cai Guo Qiang: Odyssey
This film was created to document the creation of a large scale gunpowder painting for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston by renowned artist Cai Guo Qiang. After many months of preparation, Cai and his team came to Houston where they spent six days laying out the panels, creating stencils and testing the gun powder. All of this preparation came to realization when Cai ignited the gunpowder painting on October 6th, 2010, causing the image to sear into the canvas. This beautiful work of art can be viewed in the Arts of China Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Directed, filmed and edited by John Carrithers