Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Fall 2023: Madison Brookshire, Number Series Tuesday, September 19, 2023, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 PM Free Admission.   In addition to 16mm, works in the Number Series use elements of experimental music composition and performance to create hybrid forms. They move uncomfortably, if productively, between both/and and neither/nor: […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: The Inheritance Ephraim Asili, USA 2020, 101 min Friday, October 13, and Sunday, October 15: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. $4 Single Admission.     After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Chungking Express Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong 1994, 102 min Friday, October 27, and Sunday, October 29: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. $4 Single Admission.     The whiplash, double-pronged “Chungking Express” is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Teorema Pier Paoloa Pasolini, Italy 1968, 98 min Friday, November 10, and Sunday, November 12: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. $4 Single Admission.   One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Superfest Superfest Disability Film Festival a Curated Program, 73 min Friday, November 17, and Sunday, November 19: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. $4 Single Admission.   The Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in 1970 […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Feet in the Water, Head on Fire Terry Long, 92 min. Friday, December 1, 2023, and Sunday, December 3, 2023: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. $4 Single Admission.     Terra Long’s feature debut is a breathtaking portrait of California’s Coachella Valley that is both anchored in […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Lady Snowblood Toshiya Fujita, 97 min. Friday, February 9, 2024, and Sunday, February 11, 2024: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission.   Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 93 min. Friday, February 16, 2024, and Sunday, February 18, 2024: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission.   The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update […]

Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Spring 2024: Christopher Harris, still/here (60 min, 2000),  Dreams Under Confinement (2.5 min, 2020) Thursday, March 14, 2024, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 PM, Free Admission.   Harris has shown his work at prestigious film festivals and art venues, including his solo screenings/exhibitions at the Belo Horizonte International Short […]

Harpur Cinema Presents: Mon Oncle Jacques Tati, France 1958, 116 mins Friday, March 22, 2024, and Sunday, March 24, 2024: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission     Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old- fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, […]

Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Spring 2024: Sheri Wills, Select Works, 21 min Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm, Free Admission.   Sheri Wills an artist who works with film, video, and sound to make single-channel videos, installations, sound works, and live video performances. She explores the material, psychological, and […]

Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Spring 2024: Tara Nelson, Select Works, 21 min Tuesday, April 4, 2024, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 pm, Free Admission Tara Nelson is a filmmaker, curator, programmer, and lecturer working with film and digital media. At Visual Studies Workshop, Tara oversees the cataloging, preservation, and interpretation of the VSW […]