Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues. Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast,...
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston, MA
We hope you will join us for this very special event as we celebrate Women's History Month. Organized in conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, this event will feature a film screening of the 2019 documentary Into Her Own. Movie snacks will be served.
This live, in-person event is free and open to the Harvard community and the public. Registration is required.
Join the Davis Center for Russian Studies to screen the movie "Bucha." The film is based on the true story of an unlikely hero and refugee from Kazakhstan who, in the spring of 2022, risked his life to save hundreds of Ukrainians in Bucha and other cities and towns occupied by Russian troops. This event will feature a brief introduction by Serhii Plokhy and Natasha Dukach, followed by a conversation with the film's writer, Oleksandr Shchur.
Considered lost until its discovery in 2016, the silent film The Oath of the Sword was produced in 1914 by the "first company in America to be owned, controlled and operated by Japanese." With live musical accompaniment and a discussion by scholar and the film's discoverer Denise Khor.
Cost: $10 / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / Harvard students admitted free
Appropriating Hollywood screwball comedies that foreground a battle of the sexes, Female Boss centers on the transition of a charismatic women’s rights activist to housewife as she falls in love with her hardheaded employee.
Cost: $10 / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / Harvard students admitted free
Join us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto's film The Aorta of an Archivist, followed by a conversation between Robleto and art historian Jennifer Roberts, in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Attend a film screening of El hombre de al lado (2010) directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. This film takes place in Le Corbusier’s The Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina and had a major influence on Renée Green’s work Americas : Veritas (2018).
In the Whale is a feature-length film about, arguably, the greatest true fish story ever told. It's the account of a man, Michael Packard, who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed and then spit out by a whale.
A Q&A with filmmaker David Abel will follow the screening.
Join an evening featuring one film feature and two film fragments by Italian silent film pioneer Elvira Notari. This screening will include live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
Harvard Divinity School, James Room (Swartz Hall), 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film Wild Life—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Patagonia, Chile. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.
A discussion on the film will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Valarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.
Considered lost for years, these rediscovered, incendiary short films were made by legendary Serbian filmmaker Žilnik upon emigrating to West Germany in 1974.
Join an evening of short films commissioned for the exhibition Dancing Before the Moon at the British Pavilion at the La Biennale di Venezia's 18th International Architecture and curated by the Loeb/ArtLab Fellow Joseph Zeal-Henry. This film program explores everyday rituals for diaspora communities in the United Kingdom and their influence on the built environment.
These programs of Elvira Notari’s extant works will highlight two feature films from 1922—È piccerella and ‘A santanotte—rooted in the Neapolitan melodramatic artistic form of sceneggiata that fuses popular songs and elements of the variety show.
This film screening features live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
Critically reflecting on the ROK-US Alliance signed following the Korean Armistice Agreement, this program features select films of the Korean War and immediate postwar period. Though the alliance imposed a strict ideological corset on Korean filmmakers, the very promotion of "freedom" as an American value provoked Korean filmmakers and audiences to question the ongoing gender hierarchies, colonialism and ideological divides in the Korean peninsula.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors and non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
Deliberately more accessible than his earlier avant-garde landmarks, Revolution+1 is nevertheless equally courageous and controversial in its direct address to an incendiary, even taboo, topic, here the motivations guiding the assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
