Be Home Before The Streetlights
Short Film | 9:10 minutes | Written & Directed by Gee Horton | Executive Produced by Shay Nartker
Created in collaboration with filmmaker Shay Nartker, this award-winning short film was selected for the 2025 OTR International Film Festival and named Best Ohio Short Documentary for the 2025 Cindependent Film Festival. Through intimate storytelling and symbolic imagery, the work explores generational healing, transformation, and the emotional pursuit of closure.
The Baobab Project
The Baobab Project is a photo-centered exploration of Black manhood and emotional memory, created between 2021 and 2024 as part of the artist’s broader social practice. Developed in collaboration with author and co-founder of Diasporic Soul, Phyllis Jeffers-Coly, the project combines intimate portrait sessions with guided meditation and dialogue. Participants—adorned in white tribal paint inspired by African rites of passage—are photographed using Polaroid and film-based methods.
These portraits serve as vessels of vulnerability, cultural reconnection, and personal transformation. With over 70 men engaged across Ohio and Kentucky, the project reflects the collective power of storytelling, healing, and creative ritual as tools for social engagement.
Coming of Age
Coming of Age
Coming of Age: Chapter One (A short film) by Gee Horton & Shay Nartker
Coming of Age: Trailer 1
Coming of Age: Trailer 2
Coming of Age: UNAVAILABLE
Short Film | 17:22 minutes | Written & Directed by Gee Horton | Executive Produced by Shay Nartker
This short film expands Gee Horton’s debut exhibition into a cinematic meditation on identity, purpose, and love through the lens of adolescence. Blending narrative vignettes, spoken word, and visual texture, the work invites viewers into an immersive exploration of vulnerability and the universal search for self.