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My First Film (2024)
My First Film (2024) — Zia Anger
United States, DCP, 100 mins.
Zia Anger’s absorbing, semi-autobiographic metafiction captures the failures of Vita (Odessa Young), a 25-year-old artist trying to make a nebulously personal movie in 2010. Reflecting on the preoccupations of a creative coming-of-age protagonist, Anger re-creates authentically uncomfortable, hilarious, and chaotic moments on set and behind the scenes with a cast and crew of friends and family. The beguiling result takes audiences through a circuitous unraveling to ask what it means to be a voyeur of one’s own messy life. Featuring a cameo by Sarah Michelson as an abortion doctor and music by Perfume Genius.
My First Film (2024)
My First Film (2024) — Zia Anger
United States, DCP, 100 mins.
Zia Anger’s absorbing, semi-autobiographic metafiction captures the failures of Vita (Odessa Young), a 25-year-old artist trying to make a nebulously personal movie in 2010. Reflecting on the preoccupations of a creative coming-of-age protagonist, Anger re-creates authentically uncomfortable, hilarious, and chaotic moments on set and behind the scenes with a cast and crew of friends and family. The beguiling result takes audiences through a circuitous unraveling to ask what it means to be a voyeur of one’s own messy life. Featuring a cameo by Sarah Michelson as an abortion doctor and music by Perfume Genius.
Born in Flames (1983) [35mm]
Born in Flames (1983) — Lizzie Borden
United States, 35mm, 80 mins.
A Q&A with Lizzie Borden and Jon Davies follows the screening
Code Unknown (2000) [Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages]
Code Unknown [Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages](2000) — Michael Haneke
France/Austria/Romania/Germany, Digital, 118 mins.
This screening will be introduced by Alison O’Daniel
Compensation (1999) [16mm]
Compensation (1999) — Zeinabu irene Davis
United States, 16mm, 95 mins.
A conversation with Alison O’Daniel and Zeinabu irene Davis follows the screening
Still We Rise (2022)
Still We Rise (2022) — John Harvey
Australia, DCP, 57 mins.
This screening is followed by a conversation with John Harvey (Torres Strait Islander) and Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux and Muskogee Creek
The Tuba Thieves (2023)
The Tuba thieves (2023) — Alison O’Daniel
united states, DCP, 91 mins.
Both screenings will be introduced by Alison O’Daniel
The Tuba Thieves (2023)
The Tuba Thieves (2023) — Alison O’Daniel
United States, DCP, 91 mins.
Both screenings will be introduced by Alison O’Daniel
Kinetic Visions in the Bentson Mediatheque
Kinetic Visions in the Bentson Mediatheque
Something Good — Negro Kiss |1898| dir. by William Nicholas Selig | u.s., 1 mins.
All My Life |1966| dir. by Bruce Baillie | u.s., 3 mins.
Living Inside |1989| dir. by Sadie Benning | u.s., 5 mins.
7-7-94 For my babe |2020| dir. by Paige Taul | u.s., 3 mins.
Show Me Other Places |2021| dir. by Rajee Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka/U.s., 12 mins.
Verticial Roll |1972| dir. Joan Jonas | u.s., 20 mins.
Mirror Products Catalog |2023| dir. by Annapurna Kumar | u.s., 5 mins.
digital, ~50 mins.
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Motion Capture: Recent Acquisitions in Media and Performance, this playlist of kinetically driven imagery from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection, contemporary artists’ films, and other historic works loops in the Bentson Mediatheque on Thursday, March 21, 6 to 9 pm. It will remain available in the Mediatheque for self-select viewing until Thursday, April 4.
Nowhere Near (2023)
Nowhere Near (2023) — Miko Revereza
philippines/united states, dcp, 95 mins.
A pre-recorded discussion between Revereza and artist Pio Abad follows the screening
Nowhere Near (2023)
Nowhere Near (2023) — Miko Revereza
philippines/united states, dcp, 95 mins.
A pre-recorded discussion between Revereza and artist Pio Abad follows the screening
Daisies [Sedmikrásky] (1966) [35mm]
daisies [sedmikrásky] (1966) — vera chytilová
czechoslovakia, 35mm, 76 mins.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s
Daisies [Sedmikrásky] (1966) [35mm]
daisies [sedmikrásky] (1966) — vera chytilová
czechoslovakia, 35mm, 76 mins.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) — Paul B. Preciado
france, dcp, 98 mins.
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) — Paul B. Preciado
france, dcp, 98 mins.
sound for silents: film + music on the walker hillside
sound for silents: film + music on the walker hillside
Join us at sunset on the hillside for Sound for Silents, an electrifying evening of live music paired with films from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. Returning for its seventh year, this summer’s experience will feature a newly commissioned score from Twin Cities–based musicians.
The event begins at 7 pm with DJ and food trucks; film screening and live performance begins at 8:30 pm.
set it off (1996) [35mm]
set it off (1996) — f. gary gray
united states, 35mm, 123 mins.
set it off (1996) [35mm]
set it off (1996) — f. gary gray
united states, 35mm, 123 mins.
dead presidents (1995)
dead presidents (1995) — albert hughes, allen hughes
united states, digital, 119 mins.
dead presidents (1995)
dead presidents (1995) — albert hughes, allen hughes
united states, digital, 119 mins.
mo’ better blues (1990)
mo’ better blues (1990) — spike lee
united states, dcp, 130 mins.
mo’ better blues (1990)
mo’ better blues (1990) — spike lee
united states, dcp, 130 mins.
the five heartbeats (1991)
the five heartbeats (1991) — robert townsend
united states, digital, 121 mins.
shared resources (2021)
shared resources (2021) — jordan lord
united states, dcp, 98 mins.
shared resources (2021)
shared resources (2021) — jordan lord
united states, dcp, 98 mins.
season of dying water [tарыҥ] (2022) + letter from siberia (1957)
season of dying water [tарыҥ] (2022) — svetlana romanova, chelsea tuggle + letter from siberia (1957) — chris marker
siberia/france, dcp, 63 + 62 mins.
Shot in and around the remote Yakutsk region of Siberia, Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle’s tарыҥ (Season of Dying Water) wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction. Some 65 years earlier, Chris Marker’s essayistic short film Letter from Siberia examined the same region during a different era of Soviet colonial expansion. As a pair, the films speak to each other, with Romanova and Tuggle’s film operating as a kind of letter back to Marker.
season of dying water [tарыҥ] (2022) + letter from siberia (1957)
season of dying water [tарыҥ] (2022) — svetlana romanova, chelsea tuggle + letter from siberia (1957) — chris marker
siberia/france, dcp, 63 + 62 mins.
Shot in and around the remote Yakutsk region of Siberia, Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle’s tарыҥ (Season of Dying Water) wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction. Some 65 years earlier, Chris Marker’s essayistic short film Letter from Siberia examined the same region during a different era of Soviet colonial expansion. As a pair, the films speak to each other, with Romanova and Tuggle’s film operating as a kind of letter back to Marker.