~ Invitation ~
Join filmmaker Jean Yugetsu Carlomusto in conversation with writer and documentarian Adam Seido Harrison Levy after a special screening of excerpts from Yugetsu’s video archive.
Rituals and Ruins:
Zen Practice in Documentary Storytelling
In the process of collecting her 40 years of films and paperwork for acquisition by the Yale archives, Yugetsu culls the stories that have stayed with her– and popped up out of nowhere — just in time. In this artist’s-journey-through-her-collection before it is reorganized as an archive, Yugetsu will show two sequences from her documentary: Rituals and Ruins, which explore history, agency, and impermanence.
Dharma Salon offers an occasion for Zendo sangha members and friends to share art, film, music and other creative expressions and explore their connections to the dharma.
Each salon features a presentation and a conversation about the influence of our practice on the material, followed by a gathering with light snacks and beverages.
Questions? Contact registrar@villagezendo.org.
Jean Yugetsu Carlomusto is a New York filmmaker, AIDS activist, and interactive media artist. She produced and directed HBO’s Emmy nominated documentary, Larry Kramer in Love & Anger, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. Her works have been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums and on television. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award for her pioneering work in the AIDS activist video movement.
Adam Seidō Harrison Levy is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and teacher. He specializes in evoking stories from people, be they writers, artists, or filmmakers for the BBC, or from the residents in a small rural town in upstate NY for the local paper. He has written profiles of the photographer Saul Leiter (Thames&Hudson) and the performance artist Robert Whitman (Pace Gallery). He is at work on a book about the lost photographs of Hiroshima. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
