{"id":34080,"date":"2012-10-11T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:02:04","slug":"event-hermans-house-at-the-bloor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/11\/event-hermans-house-at-the-bloor\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Herman&#8217;s House at the Bloor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?attachment_id=34081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-34081\" title=\"Hermans_House_1-560x315\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/10\/Hermans_House_1-560x315.jpeg\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After living in solitary confinement for four decades, how would you imagine a home? For Herman Wallace, sentenced to life in prison in 1974, it would be a sprawling estate with a wrap-around porch, a table for sixteen, and plenty of space for young people to hang out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Herman&#8217;s House\u00a0<\/em>begins as an installation piece, as a way for artist Jackie Sumell to grapple with the tiny scale of Herman Wallace&#8217;s cell, while paying tribute to the vastness of his optimism. Over five years, the film documents the collaboration between Jackie and Herman, first on her travelling exhibition, and then on the hunt for a plot of land to make Herman&#8217;s dream a reality. As Jackie traverses the streets of New Orleans, meeting Herman&#8217;s friends and family and looking for the right lot, the injustice of Herman&#8217;s story, and of so many like his, are laid bare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Herman&#8217;s House<\/em>, a big hit at Hot Docs last year (see our full review <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/25\/hot-docs-hermans-house\/\">here<\/a>) and winner of the\u00a0best documentary feature at the Harlem International Film Festival, returns to the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this weekend. Friday&#8217;s 9 PM screening will include a Q &amp; A with director Angad Singh Bhalla and producer Lisa Valencia-Svensson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Showtimes and tickets\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bloorcinema.com\/movies\/Hermans-House\/?is_archive=0#Cinemon_MovieDescription\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After living in solitary confinement for four decades, how would you imagine a home? For Herman Wallace, sentenced to life in prison in 1974, it would be a sprawling estate with a wrap-around porch, a table for sixteen, and plenty of space for young people to hang out. Herman&#8217;s House\u00a0begins as an installation piece, as<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/11\/event-hermans-house-at-the-bloor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Event: Herman&#8217;s House at the Bloor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,21759],"tags":[21200,315,21204,353,110,21201,19643,231,21202,19635,21199,1125,1896,61,21203],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-events","category-features","tag-angad-singh-bhalla","tag-artist","tag-bloor-hot-docs-cinema","tag-director","tag-films","tag-herman","tag-herman-wallace","tag-hot-docs","tag-jackie","tag-jackie-sumell","tag-lisa-valencia-svensson","tag-new-orleans","tag-producer","tag-reviews","tag-the-harlem-international-film-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event: Herman&#039;s House at the Bloor  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/10\/11\/event-hermans-house-at-the-bloor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event: Herman&#039;s House at the Bloor  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After living in solitary confinement for four decades, how would you imagine a home? 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