Lexington Film League Showcase at 21c: Brett Kashmere
21c Museum Hotel 167 W Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Lexington Film League Showcase at 21c: Brett Kashmere
July’s LFL Showcase at 21c features Brett Kashmere’s film From Deep (2013). From Deep is a feature-length experimental documentary about the game of basketball and its shifting place within 20th century American history and culture; focusing on the evolution of basketball from its indoor New England roots, to a Midwestern small town phenomenon, to an outdoor city game, with particular emphasis on its merger with hip hop in the mid-1980s and the rise of Michael Jordan as the world’s first corporate branded athlete.
Kashmere is a Canadian-born, US-based filmmaker, curator, and writer. Combining traditional research methods with materialist aesthetics and hybrid forms, Kashmere’s experimental documentaries explore the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, popular culture, and the politics of representation.
