First Person Arts

Warning! Graphic Content

Making art using words and images has penetrated the genres of memoir and documentary, creating new ways to ponder the past and document events as they happen. Daniel Heyman has concentrated his art on the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons, painting portraits that incorporate stories of what happened to them at the hands of American captors. He joins two other leading graphic memoirists and documentarians to discuss their work, their process, and their way of seeing the world. The discussion will be followed by a screening of the film Persepolis, based on the graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi.

Presented by First Person Arts and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute in collaboration with Philagrafika and One Book, One Philadelphia.