In love, in memory
A poetic, collage-like portrait of life in the wake of immeasurable loss, IN LOVE, IN MEMORY traces the everyday movements of a mother gathering cherished memories of her family and unearthing interrelated stories of violence in her hometown.
Shalon Buskirk's advocacy orbits around her firstborn son, Parris Jerome Lane, whose murder in 2017 marked the end of an unprecedented year of gun violence and housing instability in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
To memorialize her son and connect his story to the enduring systemic racism of a post-industrial American city, Shalon collaborates with an intergenerational ensemble of Black women.
An artist pens a poem for Parris, a historian sifts through Allentown's haunting legacy of housing discrimination, and an activist struggles to remember her trailblazing battle for fair housing in the 1960s. An impressionisticcounter-narrative that refuses the carceral frameworks of true crime, IN LOVE, IN MEMORY refracts quiet scenes of artisticintervention, community storytelling, and tender remembrance through a prism of passing time.
