THE EDGE is a two-day installation, screening, and healing experience that explores race, masculinity, mental health, and spirituality by artist, filmmaker, producer, and creative coach Chester Vincent Toye. The program includes a feature-length non-fiction film, THE EDGE (74 mins, produced by Chester Vincent Toye & Marion Tanis), and an accompanying video installation, THE EDGE: METHOD 001 (Chester Vincent Toye & Co-Designed / Edited by Dorian Tocker). The works in this show were distilled from over 14 hours of footage filmed across three days during a spiritual retreat in Northern California. The film and accompanying video installation invite viewers into an intimate, immersive weekend of healing, meditation, and connection shared between two best friends and their therapist. Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am-2:00pm (Video installation) Saturday & Sunday: 2:00pm-3:30pm (Feature film screening) Saturday & Sunday: 3:30pm-4:30pm (Discussion w/ filmmakers) Chester Toye is a filmmaker, creative coach, artist, and producer from South Orange, NJ. Most recently, he produced The Monophobic Response (2024), a multi-channel short film by American Artist that premiered at LACMA. As a director, his films—including Hangtime (2023), Ruby (2022), and I’m So Sorry (2021)—have screened at festivals such as the Atlanta Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Indie Memphis, and been featured by Short of the Week and Vimeo’s “Black Artistry in Film” collection. Chester holds an MFA in Photography from UCLA and splits his time between Los Angeles and Oregon. Marion Tanis turns ideas into experiences. He blends strategy and storytelling to make magical concepts clear and memorable. Dorian Tocker (b. Brooklyn, NY; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is a filmmaker and image-maker whose work captures the transcendent emerging through the cracks of contemporary life, a sensibility shaped by formative personal loss. His work moves between cultural forms and has been shown by The Criterion Channel, MTV, SXSW, and at Art Basel Miami Beach presented by Playboy. His short film THE DAY THAT (2018), a meditative reflection on the sublimity in grief, was broadcast on PBS, following Palm Springs International ShortFest, Mill Valley Film Festival, and Short of the Week. He holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. https://www.h-r.la/event/chester-vincent-toye-the-edge/