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GLIMPSES THROUGH THE KEYHOLE OF A HOUSE OF UNSPEAKABLE SECRETS

A Series of Short Films

Scary, sensual, strange, and occasionally silly, these short films come from around the world to mess with your soul and carbonate the parts of the brain where nightmares, lurid dreams, and deeply felt but half remembered experiences live.

The central themes are possibility and disruption. Each film is an invitation to take the sweaty hand of the unknown and step into a world where things are mysteriously, magically, monstrously different.

Most material may be unsuitable for kids, those of delicate sensibility, the devout, or the ideologically inflexible.

Curated by: Jason Shawhan

Media Prophet Jason Shawhan spent eleven years as the local film critic for Gannett (Nashville Rage/All The Rage/Metromix/The Tennessean) and currently contributes to The Nashville Scene. He programs the Graveyard Shift section of the Nashville Film Festival and is a consultant for the Chattanooga Film Festival. He was the founder of the Nashville Cinema Underground and host of the Midnight Movie series at The Belcourt Theatre. A graduate of NYU (Literature/Critical Theory/Cinema Studies) and Watkins Film School (Cinematography), his criticism and writing have also appeared in Dish Magazine, In Review, The Film Journal, Indiewire, Opposable Thumb Films, and about.com. His art and photography have been exhibited at The St. Mark’s Position Gallery and The Barney Building in New York City, The Rule of Thirds Gallery, and the Belcourt Gallery in Nashville, and online at IFC.com. He has also been photo elf for Crispin Glover and as DJ Nomi spins the Erase; Rewind mixshow weekly at dancemixusa.com.

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"Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom...blood red.

The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the surrealism of David Lynch." - Kino Lorber

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What We Do in the Shadows
Directed by Taika Waititi

New Zealand, 2014

Four vampires share a flat in suburban Wellington, New Zealand in the comic horror film that The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw named "the best comedy of the year." A documentary team captures their everyday lives as they bicker with one another over domestic duties, clash with a rival gang of werewolves, and go about the daily grind of finding victims to feed their thirst for blood. Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Boy, and Thor: Ragnarok) directed and star in this mocumentary that satirizes vampire films and reality-style documentaries.

Presented by Todd Herzog (UC).

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Three short films from three countries (France, Poland, and the United States) adapted from horror stories by the Ohio-born misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce.

“The pitiless regularity of this vast rhythm was maddening. I was conscious that it pervaded the entire forest, and was a manifestation of some gigantic and implacable malevolence.” - Ambrose Bierce, from his essay Visions of the Night (1887)

From his experience as a Union soldier and topographer, Ambrose Bierce grew intimate with the hollow heart and unforgiving terrain of a country at war with itself. These films are adaptations from Bierce’s collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, each a nightmare barbed with caustic irony.

Chickamauga (1962) is part of French director Robert Enrico’s Bierce triptych Au coeur de la vie. A child falls asleep in the woods only to awaken in the smoldering aftermath of war. (French with English subtitles, 28 minutes.)

Okno zabite deskami (1971) is a seldom-seen Polish adaptation of Bierce’s story of death and isolation in Appalachia. (Polish with English subtitles, 25 minutes.)

One of the Missing (1979) follows a lone Confederate soldier’s death spiral. Shot in Texas. (English, 54 minutes.)

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“Some, almost, 10 years ago I saw what is here titled “Venom and Eternity” (Traité de bave et d'éternité). It immediately worked one of the most profound and lasting changes upon all my development as a filmmaker. ... I have gone out of my way to view “Venom and Eternity” some 15 to 20 times ... .” - Letter from Stan Brakhage to Isidore Isou (1962)

Little noted in both film and art history, Lettrist cinema practically invented the structures, forms, and working methods used throughout experimental films today. Isidore Isou’s “Traité de bave et déternité” (1951) employed montage discrépant (discrepant editing) – purposely not synchronizing image and sound as well as drawing directly on the film or image ciselante (chiseled image). Most of “Traité” consists of found footage, while simultaneously emphasizing the sound track. Like the other Lettrist films,“Traité de bave et d'éternité” boldly departs from any notion of traditional cinema. MATURE AUDIENCES

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THE EYESLICER ROADSHOW -- Presented in Smell-O-Vision

The Eyeslicer is a mind-melting new TV show that will slice, dice, then mince your eyeballs into delicious ceviche. Each episode plays like a handcrafted mixtape blending boundary-pushing short form work into into a weird, wild, uninterrupted whole. From vérité documentary to amateur computer animation. Surreal horror to remix video art. Haunted high school yearbooks to Sasquatch birth rituals. Twisted bedtime stories to time traveling cats... if it sounds too crazy for the rest of the Internet, chances are you can find it on The Eyeslicer. 

To celebrate the release of the ten-episode, ten-hour first season, co-creator Dan Schoenbrun is heading across the country this Fall with “The Eyeslicer Roadshow” a one-night-only live event featuring robot Q&As, communal milk and cookies, and even an episode presented in special ‘Smell-O-Vision.’ Trust us: you haven’t lived until you’ve smelled these smells.

The Eyeslicer premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. It has been hailed as “one of the craziest TV shows you’ll ever see” (Indiewire) and “an insane variety show puree” (Entertainment Weekly). The show features work by David Lowery, Amy Seimetz, the Zellner Brothers, Shaka King, Calvin Reeder, Lauren Wolkstein, Yen Tan, Harrison Atkins, Zia Anger, Frances Bodomo, Nathan Silver, Brian Lonano, Borscht, Celia Rowlson Hall, Patrick Bresnan + Ivete Lucas, Ornana, Leah Shore, Jennifer Reeder, and many, many more.

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David Lynch's haunting 1980 masterpiece follows the life of one John Merrick, a real life figure who lived in Victorian London. 

Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the "Elephant Man." Treves brings Merrick into his home, discovering that his rough exterior hides a refined soul, and that Merrick can teach the stodgy British upper class of the time a lesson about dignity. Merrick becomes the toast of London and charms a caring actress (Anne Bancroft) before his death at 27.

One of Lynch's few conventionally narrative films that still reveals his unique mastery of character, art direction, sound, and sensitive understanding of the human experience.

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KENT LAMBERT - IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
Kent Lambert is a Chicago-based musician and media artist. His creative output primarily consists of 1) vocal driven art-pop music and 2) pop-inflected video art made from repurposed industrial and commercial media. His ever-mutating band Roommate has been performing and stateside and abroad since the early 2000s. Their fourth album MAKE LIKE was released in 2015.

Lambert on his work: 

In my music and video work, I search for intersections between 1) meditative interrogation of society and self 2) textural and tonal intrigue and beauty 3) absurdist and/or humanist humor and 4) cathartic emotional expression. A primary underlying motivation of my video work is to reflect, critique and ultimately transcend American zeitgeists and my own consumption within them. 

The screening will feature selections from the Video Data Bank's Videoworks Vol. 1 compilation, a music video or two, and the first two installments of an ongoing mixed-reality series, RECKONING 3 (2013) and RECKONING 4 (2016). 

More on Lambert's videos:

“Sitting somewhere between these two styles [Animal Charm and Bryan Boyce] but inflected with the serialism of Steve Reich, Kent Lambert's videos are elaborate mood pieces evoking moments of strange joy or dread… In contrast to the limited-edition model of gallery video art, Lambert early on aligned himself with an anti-copyright ethos, ending his videos with a note that his works were in the public domain, and setting up a website to exhibit them freely. In this sense, he overlaps with a younger generation of artists who emerged as Internet natives, engaged with sharing video as a social activity.” –Ed Halter, “Recycle It,” Moving Image Source, July 2008

“Graced with a keen sense of editorial timing, Lambert uses his subject's own words to twist their egos into knots without going straight for the cheap laugh. But beyond humor, Lambert can turn his source material into sonic landscapes with a beat—à la EBN—and juxtapose images to unlock the cultural bias contained within.” –Jason Halprin, CINE-FILE, August 2009

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Last year thousands of Water Protectors from around the world stood with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), including hundreds of tribal nations. DAPL is a crude oil pipeline that was constructed just north of the Stand Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The resistance touched on many issues which have effected the indigenous people of the world, including issues of sovereignty, access to land and water, desecration of sacred sites, police brutality, and access to clean water. Despite this unprecedented resistance the pipeline is active today, carrying about 500,000 barrels per day of crude oil across multiple states and waterways including the Missouri River which provides drinking water for millions of people down stream. The fight to stop Energy Transfer Partners the company that operates the pipeline, has since moved from the front line at Standing Rock into defund campaigns in the banks, on to the streets of cities around the world, and most notably in the courts. The Mini Microcinema will be screening a selection of short films from the Standing Rock Resistance. Albert Ortiz of the American Indian Movement Chapter of Indiana and Kentucky will be speaking following the screenings. So please join us in reflection of this historic moment and a discussion of what lies ahead.

FREE with $5 suggested donation ... ALL DONATIONS will go to an organization fighting for the cause. 

Harun Farocki: Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Presented by Center for Film and Media Studies at UC

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At the same time as a bomb is released, a photograph is taken. Farocki examines the simultaneity of destruction and production by paying close attention to the ways in which images are produced, used, and distributed in warfare, propaganda, and industrial production. His key example is an aerial photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp that the US Airforce took accidentally in April 1944. The image analysts though did not recognize the camp, since they were looking for a factory and not a camp. It was only thirty years later that the image of Auschwitz came to the fore, making for a powerful pensive image that testifies to the productivity of deferred action and asks viewers to reconsider how they think and feel about the picturing of war, atrocity, and evidence.

Introduction by Evan Torner

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A Special FADE2BLACK Film Festival Screening of I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, in conjunction with BFMM & The Mini Microcinema, by master filmmaker, Raoul Peck.

With this film Peck "envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, "Remember This House." The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of with BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for."

A brilliant masterpiece that only Raoul Peck can deliver and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is Free ($5 Contributions encouraged)and open to the public with all the Popcorn you can eat! Discussion follows. 

Doors open at 7, screening at 7:30.

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What's The Time In Your World? (2014) by Safi YazdanianYear: 2014
Fiction – 101min – Iran

Presented by the Center for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Part of the Series -
Migrant Journeys: Films from the Middle East, Mexico and Beyond Series programmed by Kaveh Baghdadchi (UC) and Julian Etienne

On a sudden whim Goli decides to return to Iran after 20 years of living in France. She lands in Rasht, her home town, located in the north of the country. Farhad, a frame maker by trade, comes to welcome her. He seems to know her well, but the young woman has absolutely no recollection of him. 

Awards:
* Winner of : *FIPRESCI’s Award* at the 19th Busan International Film Festival, South Korea.
* Winner of: *GOLD FIFOG, Best Film* at the 10th International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva, Switzerland.
*Winner of: *Audience Award* at the 5th Iranian Film Festival, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Australia.

Preceded by the short film:
Even in his Absence (2017) (4 minutes) / Kaveh Baghdadchi

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Lils + Lils - Films for Kids - FREE Bagel Brunch 

Enjoy a selection of short films from the New York International Children's Film Festival. Screening for kids 3 and up! 

All films either in English or without dialogue. 30 min.

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Dancing Backwards in High Heels - A Survey Screening of Video Work by Rachel Rampleman

Rachel Rampleman presents a selection of her documentary and experimental video work featuring single and multi-channel pieces from the last decade. Subjects, muses, and collaborators include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder/powerlifter), LACTIC Inc (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender and critiques existing power structures), among others.

Best known for her bodies of work that explore subjects like gender, artifice, and spectacle, Rampleman showcases exuberantly bold and irrepressible female/femme personalities who revel in challenging common clichés associated with masculinity and femininity. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently living and working in New York City, she received her MFA from NYU in 2006. Since then, her work has been shown widely both nationally and internationally, and she has co-curated exhibitions as The Sun That Never Sets.

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Urban Projections 3 : Place and Protest

Though we most often associate moving image art with the cinema, which transports us to another realm, projections and screens can return us to and comment upon the place in which they are situated. Layering historical images, projecting critical messages, or engaging communities and voices usually denied official recognition in public spaces are all strategies artists engage through moving image-based public art. For this final installation of Urban Projections we look to the notion of place and the potential of light and moving image-based art to form a critical practice in public space.

A lecture by Annie Dell'Aria, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art History

Miami University, Ohio

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Presented by the Center for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Migration and asylum have been major global topics since the early years of the 20th century. Domestic and international wars, social unrest, political repression, religious persecution, racial discrimination, revolutions, economic crisis, unbalanced financial development across the world, inequality of wealth distribution, drought and natural disasters were and still remain the main factors behind many forced displacements. As of 2015, the number of international migrants has reached 244 million worldwide, which reflects a 41% increase since 2000. Many films about migration have been produced during the history of cinema but due to increasing number of migrants in many parts of the world such as Europe, Africa and North America, it has become an increasingly important topic in the past two decades.

Program includes:

Irregulars (2015) (9 minutes) / Fabio Palmieri

In the Hills (2016) (21 minutes) / Hamidreza Ahmadi Ara

Broken Tongue (2013) (3 minutes) & Answer Print (2016) (5 minutes) / Mónica Savirón

Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (2015) (16 minutes) / Lukas Schrank 

Kwassa Kwassa (2015) (17 minutes) / Tuan Andrew Nguyen & SUPERFLEX

Jungle (2016) (18 minutes) / Colia Vranici

TRT: 89 min.

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NIitrate Kisses (1992) explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture in this first feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Barbara Hammer. 

This first feature by Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema, weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed forbidden and invisible history.
Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot In Sodom (1933) is interwoven in this haunting documentary.

A forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people are put in context by the contemporary sexual activities of four gay and lesbian couples. 
The role of sexuality in the historic present underscores the resistance of two cultures, gay and lesbian, struggling to survive in the complex interaction of power and domination of a dominant heterosexist ideology. 

"Passionate, subjective meditation on the repressed and marginalized history of gay women and men." 
- Vincent Canby, The New York Times

"Vivid, lusty, impressionistic, Barbara Hammer appears to be leading a rising tide of lesbian filmmaking." 
- John Anderson, NY Newsday

"NITRATE KISSES brings past and present into dialogue, mixing the sound of testimonials with the image of sex acts, refusing to allow its audience the escape of either amnesia, or invisibility." - B. Ruby Rich, pop culture critic

"NITRATE KISSES conjures history from shadows, layering the voices of lesbians and gay men into rhythmic lyric." 
- Lawrence Chua, Artforum

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Friday, September 29th, 5:00 – 8PM | A Party for H-Bomb. 

Come celebrate a Cincinnati legend during Final Friday at the Mini Microcinema on Main Street. The late H-Bomb Ferguson, an American original and an early R & B pioneer, performed in a flamboyant style, while wearing colorful wigs. He recorded for several labels including King’s Federal label in the 1950s and 1960s. Starting at 5pm, enjoy happy hour while watching rarely seen videos of his live performances. 

At 7PM, the Mini Microcinema will present the 40 minute documentary Blues Legend: The Life & Times of H-Bomb Ferguson that features rare insights into H-Bomb's early years, his struggles growing up in the racially segregated South, his friendships with other world famous artists, and his return to the spotlight in the 1980's.

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2013 - Directed by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon

We see them almost every day without a second thought. Weathered by time, distinct characteristics shining through, hand-painted signs are a product of a fascinating 150 year-old American history. What was once a common job has now become a highly specialized trade, a unique craft struggling with technological advances. Sign Painters, directed by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon, stylistically explores this unacknowledged art form through anecdotal accounts from artists across the country including Ira Coyne, Bob Dewhurst, Keith Knecht, Norma Jeane Maloney and Stephen Powers.

These vanguards of unseen originality are leading a renaissance with a keen creative purpose and exemplify the working class American success story. Sign Painters celebrates those keeping the tradition intact with a bespoke approach and appreciation for a balance between art and commerce.

Faythe Levine works as a independent researcher, artist, photographer, filmmaker and curator. Her work focuses on themes of community, creativity, awareness, process, empowerment and documentation. Levine’s first film and book, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design was published by Princeton Architectural Press. She is currently working on her third book about a pioneer show-woman, Mimi Garneau. 

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Urban Projections 2: Spectacular Public Art

When placed in public space outside the gallery, video and moving image art installation generates an entirely new relationship with its audience. As high-lumen projectors, LED hardware, and projection mapping technology become more affordable, media public art projects become increasingly spectacular, operating on a monumental scale. For this installation of Urban Projections, we look at recent trends in spectacular public art and consider both their relationship to the history of expanded cinema and their impact on the public.

A lecture by Annie Dell'Aria, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art History
Miami University, Ohio

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Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border (Rodrigo Reyes, 2013)
Presented by the Center Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Migrant Journeys: Films from the Middle East, Mexico and Beyond Series programmed by Kaveh Baghdadchi (UC) and Julian Etienne


Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border
Directed by: Rodrigo Reyes
Year: 2013
Documentary – 82 min – Mexico/USA

Reyes' provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante's purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell. By capturing a stunning mosaic of compelling characters and broken landscapes that live on the US/Mexico border, the filmmaker reflects on the flaws of human nature and the powerful absurdities of the modern world. An unusual border film, in the auteur tradition of camera-stylo,
Purgatorio ultimately becomes a fable of humanity, an epic and visceral experience with powerful and lingering images.

The feature will be preceded by to short films:

Recordando el ayer (2007) (9 minutes) / Alexandra Cuesta

We are the immigrants (2016) (6 minutes) / Catalina Matamoros

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Jarmusch - Memphis - Stax!

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, this triptych of stories pays playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King, who presides over the film like a spirit. Mystery Train is one of Jarmusch’s very best movies, a boozy and beautiful pilgrimage to an iconic American ghost town and a paean to the music it gave the world. -Criterion

Don't miss it!

Late Addition! Sunday afternoon - before Mystery Train.

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Wim Wenders' masterpiece - Paris, Texas

Starring Harry Dean Stanton. 

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape all its own) as he tries to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon. - Criterion

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is an homage to my home, and to a certain kind of cinema I grew up with. I believe in the transmigration of souls between humans, plants, animals, and ghosts. Uncle Boonmee’s story shows the relationship between man and animal and at the same time destroys the line dividing them. When the events are represented through cinema, they become shared memories of the crew, the cast, and the public. A new layer of (simulated) memory is augmented in the audience’s experience. In this regard, filmmaking is like creating synthetic past lives. I am interested in exploring the innards of this time machine. There might be some mysterious forces waiting to be revealed just as certain things that used to be called black magic have been shown to be scientific facts. For me, filmmaking remains a source all of whose energy we haven’t properly utilized. In the same way that we have not thoroughly explained the inner workings of the mind.

Additionally, I have become interested in the destruction and extinction processes of cultures and of species. For the past few years in Thailand, nationalism, fueled by the military coups, brought about a confrontation of ideologies. There is now a state agency that acts as a moral policeman to ban ‘inappropriate’ activities and to destroy their contents. It is impossible not to relate the story of Uncle Boonmee and his belief to this.

He is an emblem of something that is about to disappear, something that erodes like the old kind of cinemas, theatres, the old acting styles that have no place in our contemporary landscape."
-Apichatpong Weerasethaku

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Urban Projections 1: Historical and Everyday Screens in Public Space

Moving image screens increasingly mediate our public spaces. From massive electric billboards in downtown districts to small scale touchscreens at kiosks and in our own pockets, our physical, cultural, and social movement through space is informed by a matrix of screen interfaces. For this first installment of Urban Projections we will consider historical precedents for public screens and the everyday experience of mediated public spaces.

A lecture by Annie Dell'Aria, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art History
Miami University, Ohio

Doors at 7:00 PM ... Screening at 7:30 PM
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Migrant Journeys: Films from the Middle East, Mexico and Beyond
Series programmed by Kaveh Baghdadchi (UC) and Julian Etienne

Presented by the Center Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati

Félix: Self-Fictions of a Smuggler (Adriana Trujillo, 2012)
Directed by: Adriana Trujillo
Year: 2012

Creative documentary – 90 min – Mexico

Félix tells the story of a human smuggler who is also a low-budget border film actor. In this documentary we are exposed to the network he controls in Tijuana: the strategies, methods and members of his organization that smuggles undocumented immigrants into the United States.

Félix reveals the world of human smuggling from the point of view and perspective of the smuggler and includes fragments from films in which he has portrayed or fictionalized himself.

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BFMM (Black Folks Make Movies) presents: 

Get Out (2016)

Directed by Jordan Peele

Much more than a horror film, "funny, scary and thought-provoking, GET OUTseemlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride." - RT

Discussion follows led by filmmaker Pam Thomas, Executive Director of BFMMand Founder of the upcoming F2B (FADE2BLACK) Film Festival, Oct. 12-14, 2017. Discussion follows each screening to hear what others have to say & further understand the historical significance of the films.

Check www.blackfolksmakemovies.org for more information.

Columbus (2017) Directed By Kogonada

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"When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin's estranged relationship with his father, and Casey's reluctance to leave Columbus and her mother. With its naturalistic rhythms and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's COLUMBUS unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. With strong supporting turns from Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, and Michelle Forbes, COLUMBUS is also a showcase for its director's striking eye for the way physical space can affect emotions."- Superlative. Official Selection of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Presented by Dr. Kerry Hegarty, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Department of Media, Journalism and Film, Miami University.

The Other Thing

Thursday September 14th, 2017

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The Other Thing: A Series of Short Films is presented in conjunction with an upcoming show at The Carnegie organized by painter Michael Stillion. The exhibition, opening Friday September 15th, highlights artists that are bending disciplines and moving between sculpture, drawing, painting, film/video, craft and performance. Drawings disguised as sculptures, quilts appearing to be paintings, paintings as video all seeking to upend expectations and subvert how artistic media behave. Artists in the exhibition include Heather Braunlin-Jones, Skip Cullen, Nick Fagan, Sean Foley, Alicia Little, Alice Pixley Young, Joey Versoza and Laurence Chan.

The film and video program, presented at The Mini and curated by C. Jacqueline Wood, includes work by Laurence Chan, Karissa Hahn, Jeff Scher, Jennifer Reeves, Matt McCormick, Peggy Awash and Jack Waters. Both digital and 16mm work will be shown within the theme of a "a thing made from another thing." We will be presenting a video painting made out of pixels, a video made out of a video game, a video made out of drawings, a film made out of trash, and many more!