Ballroom Marfa presented the New Growth Film Program, a series of films co-curated by Rashid Johnson and Josh Siegel, MoMA. This program was scheduled to include films to accompany Ballroom’s concurrent exhibition New Growth, featuring work by Rashid Johson. All screenings were held at the Crowley Theater, Marfa, Texas. The schedule was as follows:

Wednesday, May 29

John Coney / Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place

Read Daniel Chamberlin’s essay “Like Shards From Some Vanished Civilization: An Introduction to Space Is the Place“

Wednesday, June 5

John Sayles’ The Brother From Another Planet

Read Associate Curator Erin Kimmel’s “An Introduction to The Brother from Another Planet“

Wednesday, June 12

Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song