Directed by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides • 2023 • United States

FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS tracks the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Centered on Jay and the Reality Poets, largely a group of gun-violence survivors, the film captures their harrowing experiences as COVID-19 spreads through their facility and public officials deny the suffering behind its walls. Using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, this group of disabled Black and brown artists documents the truth, refusing to be abused, confined, or erased.