Insiang
Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1976, 94 min
Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melodrama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila. Lino Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an innocent daughter and her bitter mother as women scorned. Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge. A savage commentary on the degradations of urban poverty, especially for women, Insiang was the first Philippine film ever to play at Cannes.
LAFFD Presents: Enamorada
Emilio Fernández, Mexico, 1946, 99 min
During the Mexican Revolution, General Pedro Armendáriz takes the town of Cholula and starts to shake down the rich, but also falls for Señor Moneybags’ staunch conservative, spitfire daughter, played by legendary diva María Félix. And then the federales start moving in. The Gone with the Wind of Mexican classics, it swept the Ariels (Mexico’s Oscars), winning for Best Film, Director, Actress, Editing, and Figueroa’s cinematography.
Fragrance Swap (At Dallas Contemporary)
***THIS EVENT IS AT DALLAS CONTEMPORARY AND NOT AT SPACY!!!*** 6-8pm
Celebrate love and friendship with an evening of creative fun and sweet treats after hours at the museum.
Join us for a special Valentine’s event after hours at Dallas Contemporary featuring a bouquet bar by CONCEPTO, perfume meet/swap co-hosted by Spacy and Fragraphilia, photobooth by Shot By Thrive, sweet treats by Rae’s Treats, and a DIY Valentine Card making station.
Code Unknown
Michael Haneke, 2000, France, 118 min.
FREE screening with donations welcomed!
A group of Deaf children playing charades opens the formally provocative Code Unknown. Set throughout Paris, the film follows a series of encounters between different characters whose lives intersect in moments of misunderstanding. At the end, Haneke’s film punctuates his tense narrative about the multilayered complexities of communication.
Evan Gordon Presents: The Enchanted
Carter Lord, USA, 1984, 90 min
Featuring a virtual live Q&A with director Carter Lord!
A Floridian folktale with Gothic flair, 1984’s spellbinding THE ENCHANTED is a one-of-a-kind cinematic dreamscape from the heart of the Sunshine State. Royce, an untethered sailor, moves inland to rural Florida to settle his late father’s affairs only to fall in love with a mysterious woman whose family lives in the woods around his new home. With its trance-inducing soundtrack and evocative landscapes, the lines between reality and fantasy blur in stunningly beautiful fashion in THE ENCHANTED.
Eat the Night
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, 2024, France, 107 min
Pablo, a small-time drug dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality. The newest vision from Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel ('Jessica Forever') is a bittersweet apocalyptic love story with a modern MMORPG twist.
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles, 1967, USA, 86 min
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, La permission, would become his stylistically innovative feature debut. Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger)—but what happens to their love when his furlough is over? Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Van Peebles creates an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship as well as a commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race that is playful, sarcastic, and stingingly subversive by turns, and that laid the foundation for the scorched-earth cinematic revolution he would unleash just a few years later with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
Eat the Night
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, 2024, France, 107 min
Pablo, a small-time drug dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality. The newest vision from Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel ('Jessica Forever') is a bittersweet apocalyptic love story with a modern MMORPG twist.
Caché
Michael Haneke, 2005, Austria/France/Germany/Italty, 117 min
TV host Daniel Auteuil’s already strained marriage to Juliette Binoche gets even more tense when they start receiving surveillance tapes revealing that someone is recording their private lives. Auteuil’s investigation into the source of the videos leads him on a troubling journey into his own past – and, in ace director Michael Haneke’s hands, into the nature of denial in all its forms. A chilling, one-of-a-kind masterpiece. In French with English subtitles.
Innasection Presents: Music Time with Yalcy
Yalcy is a Dallas based DJ & producer that also runs the DFW based record label Innasection.
Music Time is a class in which you will:
Collaborate with a community of like-minded individuals
Cultivate a sustainable creative practice
Develop skills and knowledge in music production, Ableton and mixing
Make some cool music
Class is Sunday, Jan 26th from 2-5pm. $30 admission to this class. In addition, you can book 3 classes at once for $60!
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Melvin Van Peebles United States, USA, 1971, 97 min
A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van Peebles’s second feature film, after he walked away from a contract with Columbia in order to make his next film on his own terms. Acting as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and star, Van Peebles created the prototype for what Hollywood would eventually co-opt and make into the blaxploitation hero: a taciturn, perpetually blank-faced performer in a sex show, who, when he’s pushed too far by a pair of racist cops looking to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit, goes on the run through a lawless underground of bikers, revolutionaries, sex workers, and hippies in a kill-or-be-killed quest for liberation from white oppression. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’s incendiary politics are matched by Van Peebles’s revolutionary style, in which jagged jump cuts, kaleidoscopic superimpositions, and psychedelic sound design come together in a sustained howl of rage and defiance.
Happy End
Michael Haneke, France/Germany/Austria, 2017, 107 min
From Michael Haneke, Oscar-winning director of CACHÉ, THE WHITE RIBBON, and AMOUR, comes a multi-generational drama starring Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz as chilly siblings, with Jean-Louis Trintignant as the paterfamilias of their upper class family of French developers. Situated in a grand home in Calais (site of the “Jungle,” a notorious refugee camp), Trintignant and Huppert revisit their edgy father-daughter relationship from AMOUR. While HAPPY END is not a sequel to that film, it does continue the director’s focus upon (in Manohla Dargis’s words in The New York Times): “…the rot and wretchedness of the bourgeoisie… [with an] emphasis again on surveillance culture, class pathology and anomie…” Haneke masterfully withholds information -- then powerfully shocks you with one profound revelation after another, much of it tinged with his signature nihilistic black humor.
Satan Kingdom Babylon
Marie Šprincl, Petr Šprincl, 2024, Czech Republic, 77 min
A hyperreal exploration of conspiracy theories using the narratives of various hate groups in Trump's America. A detective plot telling one possible truth about the mysterious disappearance of a young girl in a hotel standing in a post-apocalyptic desert landscape. The anonymous hotel as a deus ex machina - a simulacrum of past, present and future through which the detective is led by clues ranging from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Neturei Karta. The End is Here.
Evan Gordon Presents: Emma Mae
Jamaa Fanaka, 1976, USA, 100 min
Virtual Q&A w director Jamaa Fanaka’s granddaughter & biographer Khadijah Fanaka
Fanaka's second feature, EMMA MAE, tells the story of a naive young woman who moves from the Deep South to Watts. Initially finding herself at odds with her surroundings, Emma eventually gains acceptance from a local drug addict and dealer. But when he's arrested and jailed, she plans a daring bank robbery to bail him out... Featuring a cast of mostly non-professionals and shot entirely on location in Watts, this uniquely subversive action film is an insider's view of black, working-class LA neighborhoods.
Bona
Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1980, 82 min
Middle class school girl Bona skips class to hang around the sets of bit actor Gardo. When her father attempts to beat some sense into her, Bona moves into Gardo’s shack in the slums, delighted to play house–only to find herself not the wife, but the maid. Groundbreaking singer, actor, and producer Nora Aunor works with director Lino Brocka to subvert her stardom at the height of her fame. Brocka, following the success of Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and Insiang (1976), takes her up on the challenge and sets Aunor against his familiar backdrop Manila’s slum, yet steers clear of making poverty the sole focus of the film. Instead, Bona is about blinding adoration and its stranglehold on both the lover and the beloved. Restored from the original camera negatives and available for the first time in more than 40 years, Bona embarks on a new life on in a stunning new 4K restoration!
Bona
Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1980, 82 min
Middle class school girl Bona skips class to hang around the sets of bit actor Gardo. When her father attempts to beat some sense into her, Bona moves into Gardo’s shack in the slums, delighted to play house–only to find herself not the wife, but the maid. Groundbreaking singer, actor, and producer Nora Aunor works with director Lino Brocka to subvert her stardom at the height of her fame. Brocka, following the success of Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and Insiang (1976), takes her up on the challenge and sets Aunor against his familiar backdrop Manila’s slum, yet steers clear of making poverty the sole focus of the film. Instead, Bona is about blinding adoration and its stranglehold on both the lover and the beloved. Restored from the original camera negatives and available for the first time in more than 40 years, Bona embarks on a new life on in a stunning new 4K restoration!
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Michael Haneke, Germany, 1994, 99 min
FREE screening with donations welcomed!
The simultaneously random and interconnected nature of modern existence comes into harrowing focus in the despairing final installment of Michael Haneke’s trilogy. Seventy-one intricate, puzzlelike scenes survey the routines of a handful of seemingly unrelated people—including an undocumented Romanian boy living on the streets of Vienna, a couple who are desperate to adopt a child, and a college student on the edge—whose stories collide in a devastating encounter at a bank. The omnipresent drone of television news broadcasts in 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE underscores Haneke’s vision of a numb, dehumanizing world in which emotional estrangement can be punctured only by the shock of sudden violence.
Manila in the Claws of Light
Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1975, 125 min
Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director’s turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on mainstream films he described as “soaps.” A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.
IRL Movie Club Presents: The Thinking Game
The Thinking Game chronicles the extraordinary life of Demis Hassabis, a visionary scientist on a relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
To get your ticket for only $5 use promo code IRLCLUB at checkout and you'll automatically join the IRL Movie Club for free and join the email list to hear about future events! Already an IRL Movie Club Member? Use the same promo code to get your $5 ticket!"
How to Survive a Plague
David France, 2012, USA, 109 min
Co-presented with DFW Anti-War Committee & Dallas Social Queer Organization (DSQO). Free screening!
How To Survive a Plague is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and ’90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
Innasection Presents: Music Time with Yalcy
Yalcy is a Dallas based DJ & producer that also runs the DFW based record label Innasection.
Music Time is a class in which you will:
Collaborate with a community of like-minded individuals
Cultivate a sustainable creative practice
Develop skills and knowledge in music production, Ableton and mixing
Make some cool music
Class is Sunday, Jan 26th from 2-5pm. $30 admission to this class. In addition, you can book 3 classes at once for $60!
Teorema
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1968, 95 min
One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
The Meetings of Anna
Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1978, 127 min
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers—we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.
Notre Musique
Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France, 2004, 80 min
Three Dante-inspired chapters—“Hell,” “Purgatory,” and “Paradise”—divide Godard’s scathing portrait of the 20th century afire in this woefully underseen 2004 masterwork. War, political violence, and cinema’s role in relation to them have preoccupied Godard throughout his career. In the searing Notre musique, the auteur provides perhaps his most honest and profound articulation of these ideas, using a montage of war footage and a narrative about a Sarajevo symposium (with Godard himself as one of the speakers) to address the occupation of Palestine, the long arm of colonialism, and the state of American imperialism, all within the context of film art. Its relevance at this moment is staggering.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1960, 111 min
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs shows the largely unsung yet widely beloved master Naruse at his most socially exacting and profoundly emotional.
My Brother’s Wedding
Charles Burnett, 1983, USA, 115 min
Pierce Mundy works at his parents’ South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future and his childhood buddies in prison or dead. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-middle-class Black woman, Pierce navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life.
LAFFD: Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo Shorts
Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo were among the most influential figures in Colombian cinema. In the 1970's they captured stories of their country and their friends and explored the boundaries between fiction and documentary cinema with a sense of humor, audacity, formal imagination and an enormous empathy for marginal people. We present a program of four of their shorts from the 1970's:
Listen, Look!
Cali on Film
Asunción
The Vampires of Poverty
Total runtime: 86 min
Through the Olive Trees
Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1994, 103 min
Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of his celebrated Koker trilogy. Unfolding “behind the scenes” of the shooting of the previous film in the series, And Life Goes On…, Through the Olive Trees traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a lovelorn young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, this Pirandellian pastoral peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.
Metal Detector Maniac
Charles Roxburgh, 2021, USA, 109 min
1/11, 9:30pm With Charlie Roxburgh And Matt Farley in attendance for Q&A. Special All Day $20 pass for all four Motern movies on 1/11!
See that man in the distance? The guy who has been using his metal detector to investigate the same patch of grass in this public park for over an hour? Is he a peaceful hobbyist, searching for historical artifacts? Or, is he some sort of devious maniac, hiding in plain sight, waiting for an opportunity to prey upon the innocent?
When Matt Farley & Tom Scalzo, music professors currently on sabbatical, spot this man, they become immediately suspicious. Given Tom’s highly sensitive “vibe receptors,” these suspicions carry significant weight. Fearing their sleepy bedroom community to be in jeopardy, our heroes have little choice but to reinvent themselves as citizen sleuths and dive headlong into a full investigation. The hair-raising secrets that they uncover must be seen to be believed!
Freaky Farley
Charles Roxburgh, 2007, USA, 83 min
1/11, 7:30pm With Charlie Roxburgh And Matt Farley in attendance for Q&A. Special All Day $20 pass for all four Motern movies on 1/11!
When Farley Wilder (a weirdo peeping Tom in a small New England town) meets a daring young woman, he gains the confidence to both stand up to his overbearing father and also save the town from the hushed-up secret that's been killing people for decades! Beautifully shot on 16mm and newly scanned in 2k thanks to Gold Ninja Video, Freaky Farley is an ode to regional slashers of yore and just might be the closest the Motern Media crew have come to a De Palma riff. Full of peeping shenanigans and all the small town charm that keeps us coming back to these films, you won’t want to miss out on this one!
Magic Spot
Charles Roxburgh, 2022, USA, 87 min
1/11, 3:30pm. With Charlie Roxburgh And Matt Farley in attendance for Q&A. Special All Day $20 pass for all four Motern movies on 1/11!
When local broadcaster Walter Moore (Matt Farley) and his cousin Poopy (Chris Peterson) discover a magic spot in the local woods, their lives are forever altered in the most surprising of ways, as the spot turns out to be not only magic but also a portal to the past that can be utilized for good or for ill!
Will the two friends finally discover the truth behind the events that led to the demise of their Uncle Dan (Kevin McGee)? Will Matt use the power of the spot to figure out what his old flame Alyssa (Elizabeth Peterson) was wearing on their first date? And who are the mysterious men that seem to be following them everywhere they go? Could it have something to do with the world's end as we know it?
We’ll have hot chocolate in the lobby for one of the coziest winter afternoon films of all time - Magic Spot is BACK TO THE FUTURE meets TWIN PEAKS, and the most heartwarming film you’ll ever see where people scream, 'Acclimate, Poopy! Acclimate!’
Slingshot Cops
Charles Roxburgh, 2016, USA, 90 min
1/11, 1:15pm with Charlie Roxburgh And Matt Farley in attendance for Q&A. Special All Day $20 pass for all four Motern movies on 1/11!
A supernatural menace is stealing the senses of innocent townfolk. Officers Rusty and Wolf are the last line of defense!
If you’ve ever wondered “what if my uncle was the star of a buddy cop movie,” then we have the perfect film for you. Featuring one of Motern legend Kevin McGee’s most meaty performances, Slingshot Cops is the most ambitious Motern project to date in terms of scope & dials up the small town charm to a rapturous height.
The Clan’s Heir is a Trans Woman
Hitoshi Ozawa, 2013, Japan, 86 min
When a powerful Yakuza boss passes away, his final order is to locate his long-lost child and name them as his successor. Their search leads to an unexpected place: a lively queer bar, where they meet Nana—a trans woman and the boss’s heir! A fresh and heartfelt reimagining of the yakuza genre, The Clan’s Heir Is a Trans Woman blends action, drama, and surprising tenderness. This genre-bending tale marks a unique and poignant moment in the landscape of trans cinema.
The River (1951)
Jean Renoir, France, 1951, 99 min
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
Equinox Flower
Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1958, 118 min
Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
Pierre Clémenti, 1986, France, 81 min
In Necrocity, 300 kilos of heroin are missing, the police jump to action. Here, the state is merely a means to efficiently impose cruel police brutality and arbitraty violence, and an underground of club-goers indulge in drugs, parties, and sex. A murderer is on the loose in this dystopian future city, and crime is about to rise to a fever pitch. Shades of Kenneth Anger and Alphaville pervade Pierre Clementi’s wild, hypnotic, and visually overpowering IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUE RASCAL, a monument of Parisian Underground Cinema.
LAFFD Film Club Presents: Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964, 118 min // $10
Latin American Film Festival of Dallas is proud to present the LAFFD Film Club. Once a month we will show a classic Latin American film.
Glauber Rocha's sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about the blind followers of dead-end ideologies. Somewhere in the Brazilian hinterlands of the 1940s, ranch hand Manoel becomes an outlaw after killing his swindling boss. He pledges allegiance to Sebastião, a self-styled holy man who preaches revolt against rich landowners even as he perpetrates unspeakable acts of violent zealotry against the innocent. While the landowners hire a mercenary to take out Sebastião, Manoel and his wife Rosa join cangaceiros Corisco and Dadá, only to find themselves once more in league with evil, deluded forces. Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement's most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism.
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Innasection Presents: Music Time with Yalcy
Yalcy is a Dallas based DJ & producer that also runs the DFW based record label Innasection.
Music Time is a class in which you will:
Collaborate with a community of like-minded individuals
Cultivate a sustainable creative practice
Develop skills and knowledge in music production, Ableton and mixing
Make some cool music
Class is Sunday, Jan 26th from 2-5pm. $30 admission to this class. In addition, you can book 3 classes at once for $60!
Evan Gordon Presents: The Mafu Cage
Karen Authur, 1978, USA, 102min // Featuring a virtual Q&A with director Karen Authur
One of the first American horror films directed by a woman, Arthur’s independently financed The Mafu Cage features a chillingly committed Kane as Cissy, a child-woman who lives with astronomer sister Lee Grant in a crumbling house in the Hollywood Hills, passing her days tormenting her pet monkeys, harboring incestuous desires for her sibling, and generally spiraling towards a spectacular, blood-splattered breakdown. A primal psychodrama with insidious water torture pacing and suffocatingly claustrophobic atmosphere, The Mafu Cage is a movie that gets under your skin and stays put.
Oak Cliff Cultural Center Presents: Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art
FREE SCREENING! The Oak Cliff Cultural Center will screen the Red Reminds Me… series with Spacy, hold a discussion between Tamera Garrett* and Yolanda Bell, and host a collective grief process engagement with Ofelia Alvarenga. In addition, a mobile STD testing station by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation will be in front of the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).
Le Grand Amour
Pierre Etaix France, 1969, 87 min
Despite having a loving and patient wife at home, a good-natured suit-and-tie man, played by writer-director Pierre Etaix, finds himself hopelessly attracted to his gorgeous new secretary in this gently satirical tale of temptation. From this simple, standard premise, Etaix weaves a constantly surprising web of complexly conceived jokes. Le grand amour is a cutting, nearly Buñuelian takedown of the bourgeoisie that somehow doesn’t have a mean bone in its body.
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni, France, 1964, 117 min
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.
Lola Montès
Max Ophuls Germany, 1955, 115 min
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.