Before I Let Go Summer Tour - Detroit

The Before I Let Go Summer Tour is a series of free film screenings at several community and artist-run spaces across the Midwest and East coast. Each screening is free and features two filmmakers from or making work in each specific venue. Held at BULK Space, the Detroit stop of the tour will feature films from Chelsea Flowers & bree gant. A short Q&A session will be held at the end of the program.

About Before I Let Go

Created during his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2022, Before I Let Go is the latest film from artist Cameron Granger. Set in the fictional town of Bad City, 5 years after a giant monster attack leveled the city's east side neighborhood, the film follows a documentary filmmaker's experience covering the community's recovery efforts.

Shot, edited & directed by Cameron Granger

Animation/Rendering by Jaylyn Quinn Glasper

STARRING

Vivian Edoja

Hakim Callwood

Marshall Shorts

WITH INTERVIEWS FROM

Reg Zehner

Carnell Bey Willoughby

Aloe Vera

Amyia Grootmyers

Kendra Bryant

Alonee Gray

& APPEARANCES FROM

Dom Deshawn

Max Rodriguez

Joey Aich

Michael Harris

About the filmmakers

Chelsea A Flowers is an interdisciplinary artist from Cleveland, Ohio, based in Detroit, Michigan, who likes Megan Thee Stallion, making mashed potatoes, and masquerading.

bree gant (she/they/slim, b. 1989) is an artist and thinker from the Westside of Detroit. She uses photography, film, video, installation, performance, and print media to investigate workings of power in everyday life. bree studied film at Howard University, and has since trained in grassroots organizing, restorative practices, and wilderness first aid. They are enamored with cities—lights, languages, architecture, style—and deeply inspired by Detroit. Public transit, especially depending on the bus in the Motor City, is central to their practice. bree is also a walking artist, conjurer, and documentarian, spending years with organizations like GirlTrek, Inc. and Institute for Dunham Technique Certification. Some of their most transformative experiences were collaborative, improvisational performances with folk like Visions of the Evolution, The Stitching Hour, and The Gathering.

Cameron A. Granger is Sandra’s son & came up in Cleveland, Ohio. Inspired by the rigorous archival & homemaking practices of his grandmother, Pearl, Granger uses his work as a means to quilt his communal and familial histories, into new, not just potential, but inevitable futures. He’s an alumni of Euclid public schools, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR program.

About BULK Space

BULK Space is an artist-collective dedicated to uplifting the works of marginalized creatives in taking up physical and digital space.
We understand first hand the needs of marginalized artists and are committed to building platforms for success via community conversation, exhibitions, and performance in which we identify and develop resources for all of our participants.

Host or Publisher Cameron Granger