New short film by Tourmaline is the debut film for High Line Originals

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New short film by Tourmaline is the debut film for High Line Originals
Tourmaline, Salacia, 2019 (still). Courtesy of the artist.



NEW YORK, NY.- High Line Art announces Salacia, a new short film by Tourmaline, as the debut film for High Line Originals. Intended to support the work of local, emerging artists, High Line Originals commissions new film and video work. Tourmaline's Salacia will screen on the High Line at 14th Street from May 10 through July 3, 2019.

A visioning of historic figures and events, Salacia unfolds in the style of Black fantasy and folktales such as Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly. The film takes place in Seneca Village—a 19th-century free Black community in upper Manhattan that was demolished to create Central Park in 1855. Salacia follows Mary Jones (born 1803), a Black transgender New Yorker as she discovers her power in the face of heightened systemic racism and transphobia.

Tourmaline is an activist, filmmaker, and writer. Her work highlights the capacity of Black queer and trans people and communities to make and transform worlds. In her films, Tourmaline creates vibrant portraits of people whose stories tell the history of New York City, including gay and trans liberation activists, drag queens, and queer icons Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (Happy Birthday Marsha, co-directed with Sasha Wortzel, 2018), Miss Major (The Personal Things, 2016), and Egyptt LaBeija (Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017). Tending to the histories and haunts of disabled, poor, Black, queer, and trans life that echo and vibrate beneath neighborhoods and cultural landmarks, Tourmaline’s films undulate between narrative and non-narrative and illuminate the mundane acts that form the fabric of landmark events and mutually supportive communities.

There will be a celebration of the film that includes a conversation featuring the artist on June 27, 2019 at 7pm on the High Line at 14th Street. Further details will be announced at thehighline.org/art. Salacia is co-commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum and High Line Art, presented by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. The film will also screen at the Brooklyn Museum as a part of the group exhibition Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, May 3 through December 8, 2019. The High Line presentation of Salacia is curated by Melanie Kress, High Line Art Associate Curator.

Tourmaline (b. 1983, Boston, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent screenings of Tourmaline’s work have been presented at venues including BFI Flare, London, England (2018); Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Seattle, Washington (2018); Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (2018); New Museum, New York, New York (2017); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (2017); the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (2017); and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (2016). Tourmaline was a 2014 – 2018 Activist-in-Residence at Barnard College Center for Research on Women, New York, New York; HBO’s Queer Art Prize winner for The Personal Things (2017); and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Workspace Resident, New York, New York (2016). Tourmaline’s writing has been published in Teen Vogue (2017); by MIT Press (2017); and by Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law (2014). Tourmaline is the founder and director of the production company Star People with activist, filmmaker, and writer Sasha Wortzel. Star People has produced films including Happy Birthday, Marsha (2018) and STAR People Are Beautiful People (2009).










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