Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell Film Screening
When:
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 6:00p -
8:00p
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 6:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$22
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Movies
Event website:
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/tiny-life-erin-blackwell-11.14.24
Watch Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016), a film that follows Erin Blackwell, one of the most memorable subjects of Streetwise (1984), a groundbreaking documentary on homeless and runaway teenagers in Seattle, Washington. In Streetwise, by filmmaker Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall, Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny, is introduced as a 14-year-old living precariously on the margins of society. Now a 44-year-old mother of 10, Blackwell reflects with Mary Ellen Mark on the journey they’ve experienced together—from Blackwell's struggles with addiction to her dreams for her children, even as she sees them being pulled down the same path of drugs and desperation.
Pieranna Cavalchini, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Gardner, will introduce the film and give insight to the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: A Seattle Family, 1983-2014.
The runtime of this film is 88 minutes.
Image: Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in her Halloween costume, Seattle, 1983. Gelatin silver print, 40.64 cm x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) © Mary Ellen Mark, Courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery
