One Night Only!
Wednesday, March 19

Documentary screening and panel at the Clairidge Theater in Montclair NJ

Link for in-person tickets here. To sign up for the virtual screening of the film and panel, click here.

Writing and singing the unvarnished truth about one’s buried secret life experiences is more common today than when Dory Previn wrote brilliant, disturbing, and darkly funny songs in the 1970s. Previn began as an Academy Award nominated lyricist for Hollywood musicals with songs for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland & Dionne Warwick before a tabloid scandal and public breakdown led to her re-emergence as a cult artist in the Laurel Canyon scene. The film taps archives for a story in Previn’s voice. J. Smith-Cameron (SUCCESSION) reads the voices in Dory’s head from her journals.

Panel Description:

A panel discussion with Co-Director Julia Greenberg and Animator Emily Hubley and IDHA NYC Director Jessie Roth follows the screening, moderated by Karin Jervert (artist and Mad Pride activist). The panel will discuss how artists can respectfully approach the representations of people with lived experience of voices and visions in ways that encourage empowerment over discrimination. Done with curiosity and compassion for the diversity of the human mind, these works of art can serve to increase understanding and healing as well as community engagement and social justice in health. 

Moderator:

Karin Jervert is an artist, writer, and Mad Pride activist. As a person with lived experience of voices and visions, she works to offer non-pathologizing frameworks for understanding emotional distress and diversity of consciousness. Her work includes public speaking, workshops, essays, visual art, graphic narratives, and poetry. Currently, Karin serves as the Mad in the World Liaison at Mad in America Foundation. She is the founder and teaching artist at Woodland Sunflower Collective, an organization that aims to reflect and nurture the creative intention of connection, healing, and sustainability through nature and the arts. She has a graphic memoir, Tea and Ten Thousand Things and two books of poetry all available here. Her study and practice of Buddhism, Earth-based spirituality, and improvisational comedy find their way into her work as well.

Panelists:

Jessie Roth (IDHA NY)

Jessie Roth (she/her) is a writer, activist, and organizer with a decade of experience at the intersections of mental health and social justice. She is the Director and a longtime member of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA), where she has led the development of education, community building, and movement building projects that bridge the perspectives of survivors, peers, practitioners, family members, and artists. Inspired by a mix of personal and family experiences, Jessie’s work is focused on the healing power of storytelling and the importance of cross-movement organizing for mental health liberation. Her writing has been published in the book We’ve Been Too Patient: An Anthology of Voices from Radical Mental Health, the Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, and the Village Voice.

Julia Greenberg, Co-Director

Julia Greenberg co-wrote the hit off-Broadway rock opera PEOPLE ARE WRONG! with Robin Goldwasser, as well as the music for the off-Broadway play CAVEDWELLER with Stephen Trask. She has released two albums of original music: Past Your Eyes and Greenland, both produced by James Mastro. Her music has been featured on THIS AMERICAN LIFE, OXYGEN NETWORK, and ESPN, and Ronnie Spector recorded one of her songs. Julia interprets the music, and is curating the archives of, the late great Dory Previn, driven to share the magic of this under-known genius with the world. In addition to musical pursuits, Julia is a health justice advocate, fighting against pharma greed and for health equity for all.

Emily Hubley:

Emily Hubley has been making animated shorts for almost four decades. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life.  Her feature, The Toe Tactic premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in 2009. Recent projects include shorts, Faithy, hey (2019) and Brainworm Billy (2018) and Look Where You’re Going! (2020), a 100’ digital mural displayed on Broadway in Manhattan. She has contributed animation to the films, Vessel, Danny Says,  Blue Vinyl and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, among others. Ms. Hubley is currently developing a multi-screen installation project about her mother, filmmaker Faith Hubley, which includes six 45-minute loops combining 8400 self-portraits with varied sketches  and captions from Faith’s journals with stills and clips from her animated films.