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2023 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

November 18

Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin: Artifacts

November 10

Variations: Projector Performances by Madison Brookshire & Tomonari Nishikawa

November 3

Mexican Animation, American Propaganda, and the Cold War (1952-56)

November 2

Luminous Encounters: Expanded Cinema of Emily Chao and arc

September 28

Universal Particulars: The Tethered - Documentary Media MFA Showcase

June 8

Universal Particulars: Signal to Noise - Documentary Media MFA Showcase

June 7

SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE (1980) + shorts on 16mm with filmmaker Robert Mugge

June 1

Uneasy Living: Climate Anxiety in Contemporary Artist's Cinema

May 25

A Siberian Poetics of Extinction in Cinema

May 18 - May 26

ADWA: AN AFRICAN VICTORY (1999) with Haile Gerima

May 12

FOOTPRINTS OF PAN-AFRICANISM (2017) with Shirikiana Aina

May 11

First Nations Film and Video Festival: GIFT OF FEAR (2023)

May 7

INFINITY minus infinity (2019) with the Otolith Group in person

May 5

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2006) in 35mm with filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

April 28

DESCENDANT (2022) with filmmakers Margaret Brown and Kern Jackson

April 27

Blessings of Cinema: Short Films with Apichatpong Weerasethakul

April 25

TROPICAL MALADY (2004) in 35mm with filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

April 24

A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION (2018) with Jane Schoenbrun virtual Q&A

April 21

OUR HEAVENLY BODIES (1925) with live accompaniment

April 20

TAHARA (2020) with filmmaker Olivia Peace

April 14

Urania and the Asclepiades: A Magic Lantern performance by Artemis Willis

April 13

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Ben Zucker

April 7

Medical Projections: Surgery, Disease, Physiology, and Health in Early Cinema (1892-1909)

April 6

Queer in Color: PUCE MOMENT (1949) and DESERT FURY (1947)

March 31

Working, Weaving, Filming

March 10

BEING BEBE (2021) with BeBe Zahara Benet & filmmaker Emily Branham

March 9

ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS (2020) with filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi

March 3

GIUSEPPINA (1960) and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964)

March 2

FOG LINE (1970) and HORIZONS (1973) with filmmaker Larry Gottheim

March 1

Open-Caption Screening: Dario Robleto's THE AORTA OF AN ARCHIVIST and THE BOUNDARY OF LIFE IS QUIETLY CROSSED

February 26

DRY GROUND BURNING (2022) with filmmaker Joana Pimenta

February 24

LOVE, WOMEN & FLOWERS (1989)

February 23

Science on Screen: FIRST MAN (2018)

February 18

OUR VOICE OF EARTH, MEMORY & FUTURE (1981)

February 17

Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

February 15

X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963) on 35mm

February 10

RESIDUE (2020) with filmmaker Merawi Gerima

February 9

EAMI (2022) with filmmaker Paz Encina

February 3

LOCAL HERO (1983) on 35mm

February 2

ARAYA (1959) on 35mm

January 27

ROSA BLANCA (1961)

January 26