FILM SERIES

True to Life

 
 
Feb 17—Feb 23, 2023
 
   
 
 
 
 
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Continuing our collaboration with the literary magazine Triple Canopy, this series asks how people compose and comprehend themselves through cinema, and features programs by several notable filmmakers, artists, and critics. True to Life is part of the latest issue of Triple Canopy, which takes up the concept of life writing: the recording of memories and experiences, often one’s own. Typically, life writing points to biography, memoir, diaries, and personal essays—and to a sense of oneself in the world as formed through these conventions. But these genres rarely account for recent shifts in how life is made, understood, represented, and reconfigured, whether through genetic modification, artificial intelligence, or climate change. These dramatic shifts call into question the category of humanity and the prospects for all life. They also make apparent the need to move past default speakers and forms of the past, as those styles and subjectivities feel increasingly inadequate in light of what life has—and will—become.


 
PAST EVENTS
Ode to seekers
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James N. Kienitz Wilkins/Andrew Norman Wilson Program
 

James Wilkins and Andrew Wilson share an evening of sly and incisive shorts and performances.

Fri, Feb 17, 2023
 
 
F1ghting
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Fox Maxy Program
 

Fox Maxy (Ipai Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum) reflects on memory, identity, and environments.

Sat, Feb 18, 2023
 
 
David holzman's diary
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David Holzman’s Diary + Weather Diary 3
 

Influential works from Jim McBride and George Kuchar depicting the inner lives of artists.

Sat, Feb 18, 2023
 
 
Wayfinder
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Beast Type Song + Wayfinder
 

Sophia Al Maria and Larry Achiampong explore cultural narratives in sci-fi-influenced works.

Sun, Feb 19, 2023
 
 
Trouble
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Trouble
 

Garnett connects the construction of personal identity with Ireland’s political struggles.

Sun, Feb 19, 2023
 
 
In The Company Of Men
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IBM: A Self Portrait + In the Company of Men
 

Surprisingly revelatory corporate-sponsored documentaries by Albert Maysles and William Greaves.

Sun, Feb 19, 2023
 
 
No data plan 2
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No Data Plan
 

A quiet, profound meditation on the “modern fugitivism” of the undocumented experience.

Mon, Feb 20, 2023
 
 
Water lilies
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​​Water Lilies
 

Three teen girls grapple with friendship and desire amid a summer of synchronized swimming.

Tue, Feb 21, 2023
 
 
History and Memory
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Intimate Archaeologies
 

These works by women touch on money, motherhood, memory, and the process of making.

Wed, Feb 22, 2023
 
 
Chronicle of a summer 2
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Gregg Bordowitz Program
 

Bordowitz’s 1993 film about living with HIV and the 1960 cinema verité film that inspired it.

Thu, Feb 23, 2023