Name: Festival Select: Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 2008)
Start: 2025-02-24T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, Room 101

Festival Select: Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 2008)

Join the Society and Recreation department of the North York Central Library in Rm. 101 for monthly screenings that push boundaries.
About this Event

Join the Society and Recreation department of the North York Central Library in Rm. 101 for monthly screenings of fiction and non-fiction films that push the boundaries of the medium. This month's film is Barry Jenkins' Medicine for Melancholy (2008).

Synopsis (The Criterion Collection): Barry Jenkins’s captivating debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is a lo-fi romance that unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. There, a one-night stand between two young bohemians, Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo’ (Tracey Heggins), spins off into a woozy daylong affair marked by moments of tenderness, friction, joy, and intellectual sparring as they explore their relationships to each other, the city, and their own Blackness. Shooting on desaturated video, Jenkins crafts an intimate exploration of alienation and connection graced with the evocative visual palette and empathetic emotional charge that have come to define his work.