Block Cinema is dedicated to encounter, exchange, and learning through the art of the moving image.
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Upcoming Screenings
May227 PM
Endless Reveries: Water in Experimental Film with Greta Snider
A program of 16mm and 35mm short films explores water as both a sublime and immersive geography and a troubled and contaminated resource with filmmaker Greta Snider in person. Curated by Northwestern Screen Cultures PhD candidate Kylie Walters.
May2311 AM
Eco-friendly Film Processing Workshop with Greta Snider
Block Cinema will host a free "Eco-friendly Processing with Black & White Film" workshop led by filmmaker Greta Snider.
May297 PM
Temporal Territories: Indigenous Experimental Cinema with filmmakers Lindsay McIntyre & Adam Piron of COUSIN Collective
A screening of select short works by two members of the COUSIN Collective of Indigenous experimental filmmakers, Co-Founder Adam Piron and Cycle II artist Lindsay McIntyre.
Jun117 PM
Origins / Departures - Documentary Media MFA Showcase 2025
Through June 12
Across two nights, the 2025 Documentary Media MFA Showcase screenings present the ongoing cinematic explorations of Xiaolu Wang 王晓璐, Seunghee Chang, Blair Barnes, Gríma Irmudóttir, Shawn Antoine II, and Blake Knecht.
"We’re very conscious of the valuable role that university cinemas like ours can play in the ecosystem of non-theatrical film. We look for opportunities to support and showcase the work of distributors who are expanding access to adventurous cinema, archives that are preserving endangered cinematic legacies and scholars and filmmakers who are promoting a more inclusive film culture.
We try to act as a conduit between that international community of passionate cinema workers, and diverse local communities at Northwestern and beyond, who see cinema as a way to encounter the world and exchange ideas."
– Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum
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