Kirkwood Public Library: Film Screening: Procession

Kirkwood MO

16 May, 2022

4:16 PM

Description

Press release from the Kirkwood Public Library: May 13, 2022 In Procession, Greene takes his methods and techniques further than ever before. A group of six men, survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, work with Greene and Drama Therapist Monica Phinney to direct a series of scenes depicting their painful childhood memories. In doing so, Greene puts power in the hands of his subjects, elevating them to the role of co-directors with equal billing. This democratization of the documentary film-set decenters the director, allowing for the collaborative nature of filmmaking to become the primary "author" of events on-screen. The result is by equal measures illuminating and harrowing, a therapeutic exercise that both pulls the viewer into the experience of victims as directly as possible while allowing those same victims to define that experience. This press release was produced by the Kirkwood Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.