An unlikely group of nursing home residents launch a movement during the pandemic.

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Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

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* “An intimate and raw film that gives a real sense of the confinement faced by the residents. It’s a powerful reminder of how defining and devastating the pandemic was, and gives space to those whose voices were long ignored.” - Review in The New York Times ([link removed])

* “Fire Through Dry Grass reveals neglect at Coler Specialty Hospital during the pandemic. Initiated as art, it became a call for action, leading to the Nursing Home Lives Matter movement.” - Interview in The Moveable Feast ([link removed])

* “I resisted delving into COVID tales until now. Memories of sirens and fear needed to settle. But the film reawakened one thing in me: absolute rage. Despite moving on, this pandemic looms in our future.” - Review in The Brooklyn Rail ([link removed])

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5 Questions for Fire Through Dry Grass Filmmakers Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina

“There’s a lot of talk in the disability community about moving out of long-term care into independent living, but you can’t always do it and there are plenty of folks who don’t have any other choice, so it’s not just about moving somewhere else. It’s really about making nursing homes and long-term care facilities as homes rather than institutions like Jay is saying. But we would also would never want for someone to [leave the film] with this idea that they want Coler to be closed. Roosevelt Island is an amazing place to live, and there are a lot of great things about it. It’s about demanding respect and having a voice and a seat at the table — essentially, the Nursing Home Lives Matter Bill of Rights ([link removed]) , where it’s all laid out there..” - Alexis Neophytides, Filmmaker
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