As part of our Filmmaker residency, Emilia Mello will be presenting “Il Mundo Perduto” this Thursday!

Heralded by Martin Scorsese as “an anthropologist who speaks with the voice of a poet,” Italian director Vittorio De Seta produced a string of extraordinary short documentaries in the 1950s that distill their subjects to pure cinema. Shooting in vivid color, De Seta captured the rhythms and rituals of life among the fishermen, miners, shepherds, and farmers who continued to live and work according to the preindustrial traditions of their ancestors. Presented without voiceover so that the rhapsodic visuals speak for themselves, these miniature marvels stand as essential, ennobling records of a vanished world.

As part of our Filmmaker residency, No Kings with director Emilia Mello is screening this Wednesday for FREE!

An ode to nature and human relations, No Kings explores the freedom of a hidden community in the Brazilian southeast. A tomboy hurtling towards womanhood, a fiercely independent single mother, and a doubtful sea captain carry on at the edge of the sea, in a liminal space between urban and traditional life. What begins as a simple ethnography becomes a deeply personal journey and a rolling visual exploration of how we love, and live, on earth. The director starts to ask herself: What freedoms are found when the bounds of authority defined by urban society fall away?

We can’t say what it is, only that it’s every bit as compelling as it is controversial and that you won’t see this anywhere else 😉

This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Director Agnieszka Smoczynksa gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.”

This is the fourth part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.

A joyous, profound, epic love story set amongst sheepherders on the Hungersteppe of Kazakhstan. “It shows such an unfamiliar world, it might as well be Mars… You'll enjoy it, not soon forget it, and you’ll tell your friends about it and try to persuade them to go, but you’ll have about as much luck with them as I’m probably having with you.” - Roger Ebert

The movie will be preceded by a screening of the short animated film Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein (1975).

This is the third part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.

A masterwork banned in it’s time, this breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema from Sergei Parajanov’s weaves a tapestry of Armenian culture through the story of eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova.

The movie will be preceded by a screening of the short animated film Tale of Tales by Yuri Norstein (1972).

This is the second part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.

Considered the masterpiece of contemporary Ukrainian cinema, The tribe tells the story of a young boy who joins a violent gang in an all-deaf school. Told entirely without spoken language, this one is unlike anything ever.

This is the first part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.

This Thursday your favorite teen witch cult classic is on the big screen!

Showtime 8pm followed by Arts & CRAFTs hour (popsicle-stick pentagram necklaces for everyone AND special guest Rachel True Q&A! moderated by our friends at Subtextual Pod.

Come in costume and get a free CRAFT cocktail from 7-8pm!

In Schrader’s classic New Orleans shot erotic thriller, a young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Followed by Q&A with director Paul Schrader.

A surreal fable from the Côte d’Ivoire follows the fantastical events of one night in a prison ruled by its own prisoners.