Bronx Gothic is a film portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili (2018 MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow). It provides a space for audiences to engage with the “political terrain” of her “brown body.” Although the play within the play of Bronx Gothic is set in the 1980s, Okwui’s piece is timely. She explains in the film that her depiction of a “vibrating brown body” is political insofar as all “black and brown bodies” have been inscribed with a history of violence in our culture. She says in the film that Americans have become “acculturated to seeing brown bodies in pain,” and she hopes that “Bronx Gothic” will allow audience members to grow their “empathic capacity” while seeing her in a radical dance that presents the brown body from a new perspective. (1h 31m with a short post-discussion)