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Dean Otto currently serves as the Curator of Film. To learn more about Dean and the Speed Cinema, read the full press release here. Photo by Rafael Gamo.
Speed Cinema entrance update: Our South Cinema entrance has reopened for all Cinema guests! Follow the Speed Cinema signs while exiting the Museum garage to the entrance while enjoying a small part of the Art Park that is now open.
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Eno
April 3
Maverick artist Brian Eno co-founded Roxy Music, produced iconic albums for Bowie, Talking Heads, and U2, and pioneered ambient music. In this unconventional portrait, Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams) uses Eno’s own “generative” art concept, creating a film that changes with each screening, featuring collaborators like Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, and more.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
April 4 & 5
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing.
Harlan Jacobson’s Talk Cinema | When Fall is Coming (Quand vient l’automne)
April 5
After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom she sacrificed so much treat her with such contempt and suspicion?
The Sacrifice (Offret)
April 5 & 6
Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation that inspired Andrew Sarris (The Village Voice) to proclaim, “You may find yourself moved as you have never been moved before.”
Five Films by Phil Solomon
April 6
A master of the alchemical nature of film, Phil Solomon’s cinematic works explore both the surface and the depths of the celluloid image. Solomon’s frequent and anarchic use of the optical printer results in films that could only be created, as well as screened, with wholly physical elements.
Misericordia
April 11, 12, & 13
Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores the entwined ambiguities of love and death in a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller set in an autumnal village in Occitanie. The film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who lingers in his hometown after his former boss’s funeral, gradually insinuating himself into the grieving family while forming an unexpected bond with a cheerful local priest.
Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac)
April 13
In this compelling and hypnotic film about the Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table, their numbers depleted by their bloody and fruitless quest for the Holy Grail, return to King Arthur's court. Once there, Lancelot's passionate relationship with Queen Guinevere causes the Knights to fall out amongst themselves, eventually leading to their downfall.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with Dr. Andrew Rabin, medievalist and professor and vice chair of the department of English at the University of Louisville.
One to One: John & Yoko
April 18, 19 & 20
An expansive look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, One to One: John & Yoko is an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert, the famous One to One concert at Madison Square Garden.
OCEANIA: Journey to the Center
April 23
OCEANIA begins at the center of the planet on a coral atoll – predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We journey with a mother and her adult son as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence. In the wake of decades of colonizing encounters, we soon realize our seemingly disparate histories, experiences and fates—are all connected.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with director, producer, and co-writer Natalie Zimmerman.
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
April 25 & 27
From her early years in the Midwest to her rise in New York’s vibrant art world, and finally to the remote deserts of New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light traces the evolution of an artist whose work blurred the line between abstraction and realism.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening conversation with director Paul Wagner and producer Elen Casey Wagner.
Tall Tales
May 8
Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke (Radiohead), and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales—a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making.
The Great Gatsby
May 17
The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan.
Michelangelo: Love and Death
May 31 & June 1
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant? Spanning his 88 years, Michelangelo: Love and Death take a cinematic journey through the print and drawing rooms of Europe through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome, and the Vatican to seek out a deeper understanding of this legendary figure’s tempestuous life, his relationship with his contemporaries, and his incredible legacy.