Join us for a screening and discussion of Baby Group (2021), a film by Emanuel Almborg that reconsiders infancy through the lens of collective experience. Now on view as part of Amant’s exhibition On Education, the film was created as part of The Social Infant, Almborg’s postdoctoral research project with the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the BabyDevLab at the University of East London. Baby Group examines early childhood as a site of social complexity: over several months, Almborg closely observed a group of six-month-to-one-year-old babies placed together in a shared space—without adult intervention—to explore how early forms of care, negotiation, and communication take shape.

As the film plays, Dr. Julia Leonard—Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and principal investigator of the Leonard Learning Lab—will provide live commentary drawn from her research on infant learning and social behavior, offering reflections that are both analytically precise and wryly attuned to the quiet, sometimes comic, negotiations unfolding onscreen.

Following the screening, Dr. Leonard will be joined by curator and educator Michelle Millar Fisher for a conversation about how Baby Group engages questions of institutional design, developmental psychology, and the subtle ideologies embedded in how we raise and organize children.

Amant programs are always free. RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Seating is first come, first served, with some standing room available. Doors for Minor Drama will open at 3:45pm on Saturday, June 21 in Géza located at 306 Maujer.