Block Cinema is dedicated to encounter, exchange, and learning through the art of the moving image.
Mar127 PM
HANDS ON A HARDBODY: THE DOCUMENTARY (1997)
The final film in the Exhausted America series brings a fascinating and unexpectedly moving panorama of American dreams dared and dashed to the screen.
Mar141 PM
OUILMETTE (2025) with Sharon Hoogstraten
Join us for a special screening of the recent documentary OUILMETTE, followed by a discussion with historian and filmmaker Susan Roe Musacchio (Kelsey) and Sharon Hoogstraten, a descendant of Antoine Ouilmette. Presented with the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum, Evanston History Center, and Wilmette History Museum.
"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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