Block Cinema is dedicated to encounter, exchange, and learning through the art of the moving image.
Apr305:00 PM
China-America Reel Ecology (CARE) Student Film Showcase
Join us for a two-screening program of new works from the inaugural year of Northwestern's CARE Program!
May87 PM
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE (2022) with filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills
Filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills joins us for a screening of her celebrated portrait film of a naturalist and environmental researcher living on a remote Nova Scotia island, which brings us closer to both person and place through 16mm photographic and development processes.
May912:30 PM
Watching the Weather: TWISTERS (2024) introduced by Rebecca Ewert
The Science on Screen series continues with the thrilling Hollywood blockbuster sequel to TWISTER, in which a new generation of storm chasers converge in the heart of Tornado Alley to deploy novel technologies imagined in a fantastical response to climate crisis. To speak to the film’s representations of social responses to disasters and its loaded negotiations of scientific authority, gender, and trauma, the Block welcomes Dr. Rebecca Ewert to introduce TWISTERS.
May157 PM
MAKE A FACE (1971) with filmmaker Karen Sperling
This defiantly dissociative psychodrama is a resurfaced gem from 1970s cinema, presented in a new digital transfer with writer-director-actress Karen Sperling in person.
May217 PM
Barbara Loden’s WANDA (1970) in 16mm with scholar Elena Gorfinkel
Block Cinema presents an extremely rare 16mm Kodachrome original print of Barbara Loden’s masterpiece WANDA, one of the most remarkable works of American independent cinema, with UK-based Loden scholar Elena Gorfinkel.
May227 PM
Pioneer Women: The Educational Films of Barbara Loden & Joan Micklin Silver in 16mm with Elena Gorfinkel
Four shorts by Loden and Silver Micklin, screened in their original 16mm prints, explore themes of loneliness, gendered labor, and adolescence, showcasing the ingenious craft of women filmmakers of the 1970s. Introduced by UK-based scholar Elena Gorfinkel.
May287 PM
TROUBLE THE WATER (2008) in 35mm introduced by Dr. Kate Burrows
The Science on Screen: Watching the Weather series closes with a stirring documentary centered on self-shot video footage captured during Hurricane Katrina, introduced by Dr. Kate Burrows. Presented on a 35mm print.
"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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