Join us to celebrate the virtual premiere of Old North, a film culminating the year-long creative residency we shared with you in 2018. We thank you for all the generous ways you spent time with us. You supported our research and artmaking through answering our very practical questions, educating us with the church's history (adding your own personal reflections), allowing us to document your role in the flow of the community, participating in our movement experiments, and much more. Our film would not be the same without your presence, openness and trust. We hope you enjoy our creation!

Watch the Trailer !

About the film:

Inspired by the architecture, history, and community of Boston’s oldest church known for its role in the American Revolution, a group of artists and dancers inhabit a site that is both a national park and a parish. For one year they follow the site’s daily rhythms, and offer slight alterations of actions and practices traditionally embedded in the space. In the final months, they document their embodied research, inviting participation and play from their friends, peers, clergy, congregation, park staff, and tour groups. Although filmed in 2019, a foreshadowing emerges that touches on the personal and communal, the public and the private, the past and the present. Old North is an introspective portrait of a sacred and civic space, paired with music by Andrew Bird and held together like a poem.

Old North 

Created by Sue Murad and Jenna Pollack

Produced by Reciprocity Collaborative

70 minutes

Free

In the spirit of the project, the premiere is a series of four screenings on each Sunday in February, beginning next week. The link will be available for the full 24-hour period each Sunday, so please watch at your leisure. We look forward to a time when an in-person formal premier can happen, but until then, we are happy to share this moment with you!  We’re hosting a public reception and celebration via Zoom on Sunday, February 20th for the general public, and a special reunion event for all of us who were involved in the residency on Sep 27th at 7pm.  

Sunday, February 6

Sunday, February 13

Sunday, February 20  Public celebration and reception at 7pm EST

Sunday, February 27   Old North Reunion event 7pm EST

Click here to register to view the film! You can register at any time and will be sent a link on the date(s) you have requested.

Thank you and please feel free to forward this email on to others!

Sue, Jenna, Ilya and Kristin