Come celebrate the holidays with the Mini Microcinema!

Thu Tran is a New York based artist, performer, illustrator, multimedia designer, and enthusiastic champion of the charming and unusual.

Featured selections of her work from the last decade will include episodes of the cult IFC show Food Party, which she created and starred in, as well as animated shorts, music videos, and trailers for various interactive games she designed.

For an installation she created in 2015 at the The Museum of the Moving Image, curator Jason Eppink described her work as such:

Much of artist Thu Tran’s practice centers on mediated food: not the polished culinary culture frequently depicted on screen, but the improvisational, awkward, and even existential elements of contemporary home cooking. Many of her works, including cult TV hit Food Party, expose a fundamental strangeness that underlies the act of preparing and consuming meals, often deconstructing the very definition of food. 

Let's Party!!!

The Mini Microcinema presents "Screens from the Region" - November 17, 2016 at 7:30pm. "Screens from the Region" highlights recent media works from artists who live and work in the vicinity and who have not screened at the Mini Microcinema before. Work by Kimberly Burleigh, Tess Cortes, Carolyn Wagner, Lauren Post, Michelle Thompson and others spans a range of approaches and techniques from documentary footage, animation, personal narratives and abstractions. Admission is free and open to the public. Organized by Andy Marko.

November 16 – Double Happiness (Ella Reidel, 2014, Austria/China), and selected shorts

Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as a starting point to explore China's fast urbanization. Chinese cities are built where histories and memories can be easily forgotten and thus rewritten. the film intersects the real and the fake through visual imaginary and commentary, interviews and songs.

Shorts programmed by Sayak Shome (UC) and Jing Xie (UC) include:

Las Vegas Portrait - Sam Green (2011) 15 minutes

A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco - Sam Green (2013) 10 minutes

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies, the UC School of Planning, and the Mini Microcinema.

UC Center for Film and Media Studies at the Mini programming partnership

The UC Center for Film and Media Studies has arranged to provide programming throughout the academic year at the Mini Microcinema. All films and events will be free and open to the public. Faculty and students will be curating film selections. We also hope to bring visiting filmmakers to the Mini for post screening Q&As and workshops.

Questions: michael.gott@uc.edu

Twitter: @cincyfilm

November 9 – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Chad Freidrichs, 2011, USA) and selected shorts

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization and emptied American cities of their residents, businesses, and industries.

The film will be introduced by Conrad Kickert, Assistant Professor of Urban Design, DAAP, UC.

Shorts programmed by Sayak Shome (UC) and Jing Xie (UC) include:

A City Within a City – Cylixe (2013) 18 minutes

A plea for modernism - Evan Mather (2011) 12 minutes

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies, the UC School of Planning, and the Mini Microcinema.

UC Center for Film and Media Studies at the Mini programming partnership

The UC Center for Film and Media Studies has arranged to provide programming throughout the academic year at the Mini Microcinema. All films and events will be free and open to the public. Faculty and students will be curating film selections. We also hope to bring visiting filmmakers to the Mini for post screening Q&As and workshops.

Questions: michael.gott@uc.edu

Twitter: @cincyfilm

Nov. 5, Free Screening of cult classic, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, by Sam Greenlee.

Followed by discussion on the Ballet Box as the weapon of choice & citizen's responsibility to STAND UP & VOTE. From venue can jump on streetcar & go Vote! Brought to you by Black Folks Make Movies. 

41 prints were made by the filmmaker prior to the film's release in '73. Within 3 weeks of it's release 40 prints & negatives of The Spook Who Sat By The Door were confiscated by the FBI & subsequently destroyed. Due to director Ivan Dixon's foresight 1 negative was stored under a different name thus saved for future use. Needless to say this cult classic is rarely seen. 
You gotta Fight the Power. Fight the Power. Fight the Power That Be! YOUR VOICE COUNTS NOW MORE THAN EVER! STAND UP & VOTE!!!
(Discussion follows screening)

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Doors at 7:00! Screening at 7:30! 

November 2 – Urban palimpsest. Three films by Andrea Torrice

City of the Century

Trees in Trouble (2015) tells the story of America's urban forests, their history, their growing importance to our health, economy and environment and the serious threats they now face by documenting how a city responded  to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects.

A Crack in the Pavement (2009) follows the fate of America’s “first” suburbs. Rapidly constructed after World War II, families flocked to suburban communities looking to fulfil the middle class American Dream. Sixty years later, many of these original suburbs are facing a dwindling tax base, population and business loss, decaying infrastructure, increased racial tensions and white flight. A Crack In the Pavement unravels the national infrastructure and regional land use policy debates, efforts and obstracles for their revitalization.

Local filmmaker Andrea Torrice will present her acclaimed films and talk about making documentaries that address urban issues of national importance by using Cincinnati as a case study.

Programming Partnership with the Mini Microcinema in OTR

We are pleased to announce “UC Center for Film and Media Studies at the Mini.” The mission of the Mini Microcinema is to show experimental film/video/media, highlighting work made by artists and filmmakers outside of the mainstream and the Center has arranged to provide programming throughout the academic year. All films and events will be free and open to the public. Faculty and students will be curating film selections and we hope to bring visiting filmmakers to the Mini as well for screenings and workshops.

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies, the UC School of Planning, and the Mini Microcinema.

Presented by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

Questions: michael.gott@uc.edu

Twitter: @cincyfilm