Block Cinema is dedicated to encounter, exchange, and learning through the art of the moving image.
In Fall 2026, Block Cinema marks its twenty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, The Block Museum of Art presents Projecting the Future: Block Cinema at 25, a year-long series of screenings, performances, conversations, and special initiatives throughout the 2026-2027 academic year that explore the evolving possibilities of the moving image.
Sep247 PM
Block Cinema at 25: IRMA VEP (1996) in 35mm
Block Cinema inaugurates its 25th year with a 35mm screening of IRMA VEP, a defining work of modern arthouse cinema that looks back to film’s origins and ahead to its uncertain 21st-century future.
Nov137 PM
Chicago Film Society Presents: DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY with Karina Longworth
Chicago Film Society presents a 16mm screening of Hans Richter's landmark 1947 surrealist feature film, DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY, featuring an introduction and post-screening discussion with writer and film historian Karina Longworth.
"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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