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Thomas Allen Harris

Thomas Allen Harris is an artist, filmmaker and scholar whose work across film, video, photography, and performance illuminates the human condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. His mythopoetic  films include "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" (2014) and "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela: A Son's Tribute to Unsung Heroes" (2005). In 2009, Harris founded Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, LLC (DDFR) a socially engaged transmedia project that incorporates community organizing, performance, virtual gathering spaces, and storytelling into  unique audio-visual events in over 75 cities in North and South America and Africa. The project culminated in the critically acclaimed PBS series Family Pictures USA as well as the creation of the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive storytelling which uses the family album as a vehicle to connect people across difference. Harris is currently in production on My Mom, The Scientist, a documentary examining the relationship between art, science and spirituality. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies.


Available Titles by Thomas Allen Harris

Title Year Runtime Collection
Black Body 1992 00:05:00 Single Titles
Heaven, Earth and Hell 1993 00:26:00 Single Titles
Splash 1991 00:07:00 Single Titles

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