FILM

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Movies Houstonians Love. The sixth season of this popular series continues into the spring!

Friday, March 18 at 7:00 PM:  Rick Lowe´s Favorite Film - Nothing But a Man

Directed by Michael Roemer
USA, 1964
Black & White
95 Minutes

Introduced by Project Row Houses founder Rick Lowe.

Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon) tries to make ends meet in a small Alabama town where he falls in love with a preacher´s daughter (Abbey Lincoln). When Anderson does not bend to his racist white employers, he is fired and labeled a troublemaker.

Utilizing a style influenced by neorealism, this drama of life in the 1960s South anticipates the 1970s black independent films of Charles Burnett et al. It was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1993.

"The great thing about this movie is the rising moral power of an individual who learns how to stand up and say no. It´s a triumph not just for this black character, not just for black audiences, but for everyone." — Washington Post

Rick Lowe is an artist who resides in Houston, Texas. His formal training is in the visual arts. Over the past twenty years he has worked both inside and outside of art world institutions by participating in exhibitions, and developing community based art projects. He has exhibited and worked with communities nationally and internationally.

His exhibitions includes; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Phoenix Art Museum; Kwangji Bienale, Kwangji, Korea; the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; Venice Architecture Bienale. Community projects includes; Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas; Watts House Project, Los Angeles, CA; Arts Plan for Rem Koolhaus designed Seattle Public Library with Jessica Cusick; Borough Project for Spoleto Festival with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs, Charleston, SC; Delray Beach Cultural Loop, Delray Beach, Florida, Anyang Public Art Program 2010, Anyang, Korea. Among Rick´s honors are; Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence; AIA Keystone Award, Heinz Award in the arts and humanities; Loeb Fellow at Harvard University; Skowhegan Governor´s Award; Skandalaris Award for Art/Architecture, and USA Artist Award.