In a partnership with Ghetto Film School, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens are serving as a training ground for student filmmakers exploring careers in the film industry. An inaugural installation of film shorts opened Nov. 20, 2021, in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, showing the work of 15 students who pursued the theme of portraiture at The Huntington, a nod to the new Kehinde Wiley painting, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The works are shown in a "black box" space that had been built expressly for film as part of Huntington's exhibition "Made In L.A. 2020: a version," in partnership with the Hammer Museum earlier this year. New films from the Ghetto Film School partnership will rotate in over time.

We present here a series of five short films directed by Ghetto Film School alum Daquan Saxton. Each film is dedicated to and inspired by, astonishing and unexpected aspects of The Huntington.