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  • Watch Online / Walls (2016)



    Desc: Walls: Directed by David Marshall. In the summer of 2015-16, artist Shawn Dunwoody led a project designed to offer employment to a group of five youth(ages 16-21) from an impoverished Inner city neighborhood to open their eyes to their creative potential through mural art. The project was called "The Fruit Belt Project" and involved the installation of uplifting and colorful multi-building mural in Rochester's most depressed and dangerous neighborhood. The youth we meet - Khari, Aziza, Ehpraim, Kokenis and Karina -- are confronted daily with the challenges of a neighborhood where 87% of them live in poverty so the project has particular meaning in their own lives. Ultimately, this film offers a very intimate point of view of how poverty effects young people and neighborhoods. Poverty builds walls that shut kids in - art has the power to tear down walls that confine us. Art binds people together as we see with the youth and Shawn, the youth and the global wall artists they come to know and the people in the neighborhoods where the art blossoms. Art opens hearts and minds it can bind wounds, it sparks out of the box thinking which leads to innovation. Walls, explores how art brings forth the power to see beyond, move beyond, grow beyond boundaries and challenges that can seem insurmountable.