Challenging Perceptions
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Challenging Perceptions

Throughout its history, the Jerome Foundation has supported projects that have helped filmmakers create work that investigates identity and broadens perceptions of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Ayoka Chenzira, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1985, New York, color, 16mm, 10 minutes); Mira Nair, So Far From India (1982, New York, color, video, 49 minutes); Debra Solomon, Everybody’s Pregnant (1997, New York, color, 35mm, 7 minutes); Jocelyn Taylor, Bodily Functions, (1995, New York, color, video, 14 minutes); Amy Ostergaard, White Wash (1998, Minnesota, color, video, 10 minutes); Me-K Ahn, Undertow (1995, Minnesota, BW, video, 19 minutes); John Killacky, Stolen Shadows (1995, Minnesota, BW, video, 10 minutes).