The Film and Media Screening series will present The History of Luminous Motion (1998) with director Bette Gordon; she will participate in a Q&A after the film. The History of Luminous Motion tells the story of 10-year-old Phillip and his Mom,fugitives from The American Dream, who live the outlaw life on the road. While other kids […]
The Film and Media Screening series will present We the Animals (2018) with director Jeremiah Zagar; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. In We the Animals, three boys tear through their childhood in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny and Joel […]
Original, provocative, and female-driven, the feature Just Another Girl on the IRT was a welcome relief from the male dominated urban films of the '90s. Smart, ambitious, and brash, the lead character, Chantel, is not your typical "good girl" or "bad girl" but a complex character who deals with her ambitions, African-American culture and disappointments […]
The Film and Media Screening Series will present The Punk Singer (2017) with director Sini Anderson; she will participate in a Q&A after the film. The Punk Singer is a documentary film about feminist singer and activist Kathleen Hanna who fronted the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and who was a central figure in the riot grrrl movement. The film combines a combination of interviews and archival footage, […]
The Film and Media Screening Series will present Beautiful Things (2017) with director Giorgio Ferrero; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. Beautiful Things is a symphonic documentary journey into our obsessive consumerism. The film follows four men who work in isolation at remote scientific and industrial sites around the world. Like monks, they carry […]
