“Fire Through Dry Grass” Film Screening and Discussion

Join us for a screening of Fire Through Dry Grass, award-winning documentary and New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” followed by a discussion with co-director Alexis Neophytides and Reality Poets Vincent Pierce and Theresa Williams, moderated by Pratt Professor Paul Haacke.

This film follows the Reality Poets, a group of disabled Black and brown nursing home residents, as they fight to survive during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, they document their harrowing experiences of “lock down” as public officials led by Governor Andrew Cuomo deny the suffering and dying. Today, with Cuomo running for Mayor of New York and anti-vaccine and anti-urban conspiracies fueling national policy, we invite you to witness what really happened and consider how art and activism can protect our rights to accessible cities and equitable care going forward.

WHEN:

Oct 14, 2025

Doors – 5pm

Film – 5:15pm

Q+A – 7pm

WHERE:

Pratt Institute Library

Alumni Reading Room, 3rd Floor

Brooklyn Campus

Enter at 328 Dekalb Ave or 200 Willoughby

accessible by ramp & elevator