| TT-285462-22 | Public Programs: Short Documentaries | Women Make Movies, Inc. | Instrumental: The Elayne Jones Story | 5/1/2022 - 10/31/2024 | $149,996.00 | Julie | F. | Wyman | Grace | | Wang | Women Make Movies, Inc. | New York | NY | 10001-5059 | USA | 2022 | Music History and Criticism | Short Documentaries | Public Programs | 149996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Production
of a thirty-minute film about Elayne Jones, a pioneering percussionist who challenged
racial and gender stereotypes in classical music.
INSTRUMENTAL is a 30-minute documentary about Elayne Jones, who broke through racial and gender barriers in classical music but paid a personal toll for fighting against a culture of exclusivity. The film accompanies this 93-year-old African American timpanist as she reflects on the difference she’s made and the work that remains to be done. A collaboration between feminist documentary filmmaker Julie Wyman and American Studies scholar Grace Wang, INSTRUMENTAL is a critical, historical, and creative media research project that tells the story of Jones’s life, work, and fight for inclusion in classical music. |