Cry of the Third Eye, a new opera film in Three Acts,

is an interdisciplinary performance work that serves as a sonic and visual durational archive of the gentrification of Third Ward, Houston Texas, a historic district, between the years 2011 and 2020.  Written, directed, performed and composed by creative artist Lisa E. Harris who blends documentary filmmaking with urban dreamscaping, Cry of the Third Eye is a meditation on the questions, how do we home and how do we value? This work is metered at a four year interval and all components of the production are sourced from the Greater Third Ward District. Cry of the Third Eye is presented as a cinematic experience with live musical narration, orchestration and discourse.

live cinematic experience

Cry of the Third Eye can be screened as three individual short films (30 minutes each) solo or collectively, or as a feature length film containing all three acts (91 minute run time). Optimally, they are presented as a live cinematic experience with narration and live orchestration performed by Harris.