Screening - Trade Secret
A documentary shot over six years in nine countries, tracing the sanctioned sale of polar bears. A panel with the film's creators follows the screening.
Talks
Talks — change
The Downtown Festival: Amoeba + Q&A
A screening of Amoeba as part of the Downtown Festival, with a Q&A afterward so the conversation carries on past the closing credits.
The Downtown Festival: The Projectionist + Q&A
A screening of The Projectionist as part of the Downtown Festival, with a Q&A afterward. A good excuse to see it on a big screen in an art house cinema and stay for the conversation.
The Downtown Festival: Karishika + Q&A
A screening of Karishika with a Q&A attached, part of the Downtown Festival lineup at an art house cinema. A chance to see it on the big screen and hear the conversation around it.
Visions of the American Landscape: An Evening of Films by Allison Janae Hamilton, with Imani Perry in Conversation
A screening of Allison Janae Hamilton's films on the American landscape, followed by a conversation between the artist and Imani Perry. It's a focused pairing of an artist and a thinker.
Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials
Fields Medalist Terence Tao talks with Janna Levin about his first popular book, tracing its six pillars, from algebra as abstraction to the mathematics of change, as a creative way of thinking.
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls from love before the Big Bang to bombs in blue air. Comic and poignant.
Disco Bambino Presents: An Italian Disco Revolution
Giuseppe Savoni, aka Disco Bambino, opens with a conversation on Italian disco, then plays a set from his own archives of forgotten gems from the '70s and '80s, made for dancing.
Aaron Gilbert: Alex Katz Chair in Painting Artist Talk
A painter talks about his work: intimate scenes of private life set against the fluorescent glow of technocapitalism, in the social realist line of Courbet, Otto Dix, and George Tooker.
Photobook Talk: Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo — El pez muere por la boca
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo talks through his photobook El pez muere por la boca in the Tim Hetherington Photobook Library, a small room built for looking closely at books. RSVP required.
"He Saw Mysteries and Knew Secret Things": The Use and Abuse of Near Eastern Archaeology and Myth in Paranormal Discourse
Prof. Jeb Card traces how paranormal and conspiracy myth-makers borrow from ancient archaeology, from intelligent plasma jinn to star-sent Anunnaki and secret missions to seize a stargate.
Zombie Bloodbath
A 1990s shot-on-video zombie movie about a nuclear plant built over an ancient burial ground, with director Todd Sheets on hand for a Q&A afterward. Part of the Visual Vengeance series.
A Place in the Sun
An archival 35mm print, introduced by Karina Longworth as part of the You Must Remember This series. A chance to see it on actual film, with her setting the scene first.
Photobook Talk: Serhii Korovayny — Love Letters to Donbas
Ukrainian photographer Serhii Korovayny talks through his photobook Love Letters to Donbas with Bernadette Tuazon, CNN Digital's Director of Photography, moderating a close look at one project.
Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his photobook This Short Life at BDC Main, a small documentary space. A chance to hear a photographer talk through his own work in an intimate room.
ISAW Exhibition Lecture: Cursing, Curing, Creating: The Culture of Magic in Ancient Egypt
Heka, the force usually translated as "magic," was woven into creation itself for the ancient Egyptians. The talk draws on texts and objects from the exhibition Cursed.
Wild River
An archival 35mm print of Wild River, introduced by Karina Longworth as part of her You Must Remember This programming. A chance to see it on film with a thoughtful guide.
Tickled (10 Year Anniversary) + Q&A
A 10-year anniversary screening of Tickled on a proper cinema screen, with a Q&A to stay for afterward. Good excuse to see it in a room full of people and then talk it over.
Segue Reading Series: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Jay Gao
A poetry reading from the long-running Segue series, pairing Mei-mei Berssenbrugge with Jay Gao, a younger poet. Two voices, one evening, in a curated program with a clear point of view.
Talks of the Town: From the Stacks: Loring McMillen’s Map of the American Revolution
Staten Islander Janet Medoro walks through the hand-drawn Revolutionary War map made by Historic Richmond Town's founder, Loring McMillen, a close look at the island's 18th century past.
