Revisit the 1972 classic, Deliverance, a gripping tale of survival as four city friends confront the untamed wilderness and unforgiving forces of nature and humanity on a perilous canoe trip through rural Georgia.

Join us for a special screening presented by Dallas Contemporary in collaboration with their current exhibition on view, ‘Chivas Clem: Shirttail Kin’.

After almost two decades in New York, Chivas Clem returned to his hometown of Paris, Texas, converting a dilapidated Victorian house into his studio. The move prompted Clem to encounter a community of transient men, “drifters, addicts, and former felons,” whom he hired to help in the studio. Growing close, the men became Clem’s “shirttail kin,” a colloquial term used in the South to mean one’s chosen family.

‘Shirttail Kin’ presents an archive of 61 photographs spanning over a decade. In a shift from the artist’s usual appropriation-based explorations of pop culture, the exhibition documents a local community of transient men whom Clem frequented upon his return to his hometown after an illustrious career in New York. Turning his attention to his native landscape, Clem captures some of the region’s most pressing issues. His intimate images disclose complex and surprising constructions of masculinity while also capturing an empathetic picture of a misunderstood and largely forgotten population.