Sag Harbor Cinema’s
LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT
A year-round film and discussion series that illuminates mental health awareness, advocacy and action. Sag Harbor Cinema’s Lighthouse Project is free and open to the public and offers equitable access to mental health information with expert-led panel discussions. Its goal is to demystify, to destigmatize, and to promote knowledge about mental disorders, and to disseminate information about their treatment using film as an entry point for discussion.
The Lighthouse Project is kindly sponsored by the Florin Smith Family.

Screening: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein, 2025)
Saturday June 13
11:00am – Film Screening
1:30pm – Panel Discussion
The Lighthouse Project returns with a program on maternal mental health, using If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein, 2025) as an entry point for discussion around postpartum depression and anxiety, caregiving, and systems of support for mothers and families. The feature film will screen with a short: Tale of Two Mothers (Sam Vladimirsky, 2019).
Guests may attend both the film screening and panel discussion or just the panel discussion. Registration is required due to limited seating capacity.
Featured panelists include:
- Dr. Jessica Cosgrove, DO — Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training, Mather Hospital/Northwell Health; Project TEACH NY Faculty, Reproductive Psychiatry; Katz Institute for Women’s Health
- Emily Tyson — Mental Health Advocate & Founder, Sculpt by Emily Tyson
- Susan Mead (Moderator) — Treasurer, Sag Harbor Cinema Board
The event will also feature photographs from artist Jamie Diamond’s series 365 Days: 1938/2017.
Light refreshments will be provided.
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ABOUT THE FILMS
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Directed by Mary Bronstein
USA, 2025; 113 mins, in English
Rated R
While trying to manage her own life and career, a woman on the verge of a breakdown must cope with her daughter’s illness, an absent husband, a missing person, and an unusual relationship with her therapist.
TALE OF TWO MOTHERS
Directed by Sam Vladimirsky
USA, 2019; 11 mins, in English
Unrated
When Jamie Diamond bought a discarded German family photo album from 1938, she did not expect to make art with it. But upon bringing a child into an uncertain world, she began to notice uncanny parallels, and set out to recreate the original snapshots with her own son, collapsing space and time, merging pixels with the grain.
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ABOUT THE PANELISTS, ARTISTS, AND FILMMAKERS
EMILY TYSON
Emily Tyson is the founder of SCULPT by Emily Tyson, a Hampton Bays-based fitness and wellness community centered on movement, strength, and mental well-being. A former educator, Tyson created the SCULPT method following her experience with postpartum depression, developing a musically driven workout practice that blends elements of dance, Pilates, yoga, and strength training. Her work emphasizes resilience, empowerment, and the connection between physical and emotional health.
JESSICA COSGROVE, D.O.
Dr. Jessica Cosgrove is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and attending physician at Northwell Mather Hospital, where she serves as Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry Residency Program. In this role, she developed and implemented a comprehensive reproductive psychiatry curriculum and clinical experience for trainees. Dr. Cosgrove also serves as a consulting reproductive psychiatrist for Project Teach, a New York State Office of Mental Health program through which she provides education and clinical support in reproductive psychiatry to providers statewide. She earned her medical degree from Touro University California and completed her adult psychiatry residency with a focus on perinatal psychiatry at Northwell Zucker Hillside Hospital, where she subsequently served as Physician in Charge of the Perinatal Psychiatry Center. She went on to found Psychiatry for Women, PC, an outpatient practice which specialized in reproductive psychiatry. In addition to her roles in leadership and education, she continues to maintain a clinical practice providing comprehensive treatment to women across the lifespan and is an active member of the Katz Institute for Women’s Health.
SUSAN MEAD
Susan Mead is the Treasurer of the Sag Harbor Cinema Board and a longtime advocate for the arts, education, and housing equity. She spent many years as a partner at a major U.S. law firm, earning the highest ABA rating, and has served as an officer and board member for numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Arboretum, and the Downtown Dallas Association. Since relocating to Sag Harbor, she has been a founding member of Save Sag Harbor, the Sag Harbor Partnership, and Sag Harbor Cinema.
JAMIE DIAMOND
Jamie Diamond is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the construction of identity and intimacy through photography, performance, and film. For nearly two decades, she has examined the evolving nature of human connection in an increasingly mediated world, often inserting herself into her work or collaborating with strangers, actors, and outsider artists to stage alternative personas.
Diamond’s practice blurs the boundaries between the authentic and the artificial, revealing how photography not merely documents but records the complex fictions embedded in even our most personal images. Moving fluidly between the domestic and institutional, the physical and digital, the intimate and staged, her work challenges conventional narratives of truth, memory and representation.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, some of which include, Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy; Prada Mode, Hong Kong; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Museum für neue Kunst, Germany; Mass MoCA, North Adams, The Bronx Museum, New York; Trapholt Museum, Denmark; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany; Fondazione La Triennale, Milan; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo.
In addition, Diamond served as cinematographer and producer on the short feature film, A Minor Variation (2018) and directed/produced Skin Hunger (2024) which was screened at the Watermill Center and the Anthology Film Archives.
Diamond is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship Award in Photography, the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award, and The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. She’s held residencies at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Bronx Museum, MassMoCA, Mana Contemporary, The Watermill Center, The Church, and the LMCC Swing Space residency and Work Space. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, artnet, AnOther Magazine, Whitewall, Muse Magazine, Aperture, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Vanity Fair, The Architects Newspaper, Vogue, and Artsy. Diamond received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and BA from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. Since 2009, she has been lecturing in photography at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the head of the Undergraduate Photography Department.
SAM VLADIMIRSKY
Sam Vladimirsky is a New York-based filmmaker and staff producer at The New Yorker. In 2020, he founded Emmy Award-winning production company Whimsy. Its first narrative film, Sold Out, is currently on the 2026 festival circuit, and the studio is also adapting Eliza Clark’s Nightstalkers for the screen. He has directed thirteen original documentaries for PBS, created branded work for clients including Stripe, NYC Tourism + Conventions, RED Digital Cinema, and Heidi Klum, and edited behind-the-scenes featurettes for films including Sinners, Smile 2, and Dìdi.
He previously served as Creative Marketing Director at the two-time Academy Award-winning Breakwater Studios, where he oversaw the company’s digital presence and led Oscar campaigns for New York Times Op-Docs including The Best Chef in the World and MINK! Earlier in his career, he worked in the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art and in the education department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.