The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives
A newly commissioned video installation in the museums’ Lightbox Gallery (Level 5), A.K. Burns, Survivor’s Remorse, looks specifically at the life and... Read more about A.K. Burns: Survivor’s Remorse
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Wenders’ most ambitious, personal and misunderstood film to date remains his visionary epic Until the End of the World, an exhilarating sci-fi... Read more about Until the End of the World
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
La Terra Trema is an austere opera set in the Sicilian fishing village Aci Trezza. The harmony of the people and the sea, the rhythm of festivals and hardships, compose a unique form of docufiction. Charting the arc of one family’s attempt to secure economic self-sufficiency, the film was to be part one of an epic Marxist trilogy, including two unmade episodes on miners and farmers. In realizing a mature aesthetic of landscape, Visconti created a film so impressive as to make him wholly distinct from his already avant-garde contemporaries in Neorealism. – Hugh Mayo...
Director Sergei Paradjanov made a practice of making highly idiosyncratic films based on the folklore of regions in the former Soviet Union. In 1969 he made... Read more about The Color of Pomegranates
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Stig L. Andersson founded SLA Architects in 1994. Having studied nuclear physics, Japanese culture and chemistry before becoming an architect,... Read more about Stig L. Andersson