What can just one person do for peace? (video)

Filmmaker Courtney Sell; PRS artist-in-residence (prs.org); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Peace Piece: Poems of Mandy Kahn (director`s cut/eBay)

Peace Piece: Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn

(The Philosophical Research Society, April 1st, 2020) This is the official trailer in HD. • In response to  unprecedented times, filmmaker Courtney Sell launched her feature-length documentary film on the peace-building works of Los Angeles poet Mandy Kahn online.

Sell has made available FREE for the length of the lockdown quarantine. She spent a year documenting Kahn’s peace-focused works of immersive poetry, which are performed by casts of actors, poets, and opera singers -- often including extensive crowd participation as well as props like bubbles and beach balls.

The film includes selections from Kahn’s 2019 performance “Gateways to Peace” at the Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles, which features large-scale interactive poems that incorporate musical techniques, a site-specific work in the museum’s tram, and a work that occupies the museum’s fountain.

Also included are Kahn’s presentations at institutions like the Barrick Museum at UNLV and at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.

In addition, the film documents intimate peace-building presentations in the Joshua Tree desert and on a ranch in Northern California.

During the online premiere of the documentary on April 8th, Sell participated in a real-time live chat with viewers. The film was screened on the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) YouTube channel. Mandy Kahn is the PRS artist-in-residence.