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Cover Image: Thoughts That Once We Had Wednesday, August 10 at 7pm

July Friday, July 15 at 7pm

Saturday, July 23 at 7pm

Not RecoNciled, oR oNly VioleNce Helps WHeRe VioleNce Rules

itiNeRARy of JeAN BRicARd

Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 2008, 35mm, French w/ English subtitles, 40 min

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 1977, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 55 min

Thursday, July 7 at 7pm

i ViNti (tHe VANquisHed)

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1953, digital, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 114 min

Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don’t need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman’s body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes tangled in a smuggling ring, with deadly results.

Straub and Huillet attempt to unmoor their audience by denying them the soothing reassurances of conventional storytelling as they hopscotch across the chronologies of Heinrich Böll’s novel, moving freely between the Kaiser autocracy of the 1910s and the Adenauer economic miracle of the 1950s. In doing so, they chart the origins and legacy of Nazism, and the moral demands of obedience and sacrifice within the German bourgeois family.

Followed by:

tHe BRidegRoom, tHe ActRess, ANd tHe pimp

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, West Germany, 1968, 35 mm, German w/ English subtitles, 23 min

Friday, July 15 at 9pm

Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

eyes do Not WANt to close At All times oR peRHAps oNe dAy Rome Will peRmit HeRself to cHoose iN HeR tuRN (otHoN)

Friday, July 8 at 7pm

Notfilm

Dir. Ross Lipman, USA, 2015, DCP, 128 min

In 1964, author Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his embattled collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on the production of the short, avant garde work known as Film. Notfilm is the feature-length movie on Film’s production and its philosophical implications, utilizing outtakes, audio recordings of the production meetings, and rare archival elements.

Preceded by:

film

Dir. Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider, USA, 1964, DCP, 22 min

eVeRy ReVolutioN is A tHRoW of tHe dice

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 1977, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 10 min

Followed by:

Straub and Huillet invited friends to recite Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, with its radically modern use of free verse, in a park alongside the wall in Père Lachaise cemetery where the last 147 men and women of the Paris Commune were lined up and shot dead in 1871. It is not hard to understand why these ambitious filmmakers were drawn to Mallarme’s late-19th-century poem, which casts readers adrift in a sea of elusive meanings, a playfully and hermetically cubist constellation of words that can assume myriad visual, aural, and symbolic forms.

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub, France, 2009, video, French w/ English subtitles, 27 min

Followed by:

too eARly/too lAte

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France/Egypt, 1981, DCP, 100 min

A faithful adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s Othon. The film depicts the power vacuum that followed Emperor Nero’s death. Against a crowd of scheming pretenders to the throne, Corneille has Camille as his epic heroine, the mother of all conscientious objectors.

Friday, July 22 at 7pm

Tuesday, July 19 at 6:30pm Special Event

cultuRe & cuisiNe IHP and the Board of Delegates invite you for an evening of Culture & Cuisine, to meet and share a meal of Middle Eastern and African dishes with IHP residents and friends from around the world. We will enjoy a delicious dinner and hookah on IHP’s outdoor patio as we honor the first ever International Refugee Olympic Team, composed of 10 refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East.

Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

fRom tHe cloud to tHe ResistANce

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Italy, 1979, DCP, Italian w/ English subtitles, 105 min

Straub and Huillet’s From the Cloud to the Resistance bridges history and myth, and modernity and antiquity. Based on six mythological encounters in Cesar Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, and on Pavese’s last novel, The Moon and the Bonfires, about the savage murders of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters during World War II. Preceded by:

coRNeille-BRecHt

Friday, July 29 at 7pm DNC Past and Present

tHe WoRld’s lARgest tV studio Dir. TVTV, USA, 1972, video, 60 min

Co-presented with PhillyCAM (Philadelphia Community Access Media).

In 1972, TVTV brought its low-budget, freeform journalistic techniques to the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Miami. Using lightweight, Portapak equipment, the TVTV crew moved around the Convention floor with ease and speed. They came away with shrewd, sardonic portraits of the politicians, delegates and voters, providing an irreverent picture of the behind-thescenes political maneuvering. Presented without commentary, TVTV’s candid, close-up coverage offers a revealing look at one of the foundations of the American political process.

Preceded by:

pHillycAm Voices feAtuRiNg coVeRAge of tHe 2016 democRAtic NAtioNAl coNVeNtioN iN pHilAdelpHiA

euRopA 2005, 27 octoBeR

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 2005, video, French w/ English subtitles, 10 min

Saturday, July 23 at 2pm Family Matinee

RodNey mcmilliAN

Free ADmISSION

Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Italy/France, 1970, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 88 min

Thursday, July 13 at 7pm A screening program organized in conjunction with artist Rodney McMillian’s exhibition, The Black Show, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. The evening will be comprised of an ecclectic range of material that gestures to Rodney’s interests across art, music, politics and science fiction and their impact on the possibilities for landscapes, bodies and futures. Introduced by special guest artist Dave McKenzie.

Thursday, July 21 at 7pm

Scarred by wartime occupation and postwar pollution, Coton Island is a palimpsest of history brought vividly to life in Jean Bricard’s childhood memories.

The island, strategically located on the Loire, was once a lively port town with ash trees, vineyards, and tributaries alive with salmon and shad. But in 1944, Coton Island was occupied by the Germans and became the setting for brutal roundups and executions and for small acts of heroic resistance.

see tHe WoRld, feed youR miNd: liVe ActioN sHoRts fRom 2016 cHildReN’s film festiVAl seAttle Dir. Various, digital, in English, 78 min

Wednesday, July 20 at 7pm

sex ANd BRoAdcAstiNg: A film ABout Wfmu Dir. Tim K. Smith, US, 2014, DCP, 78 min

The characters in this collection of award-winning and audience-pleasing films are a determined bunch, unafraid to find their own way, create their own futures, search for happiness, find a way to save the planet and shoot for the stars. Join these amazing kids as they explore the countryside, cities and small towns of four countries, and look up at the skies to explore the worlds beyond.

Held together by an all-volunteer army of DJs, experts and weirdos, New Jersey radio station WFMU is something that by all rights shouldn’t exist – a completely listener-supported noncommercial enterprise.

Sunday, July 31 at 12pm

exHumed films pReseNts: mAsteRs of itAliAN HoRRoR It will be a very “Black Sunday” indeed when Exhumed Films presents five frightening features from Italy’s greatest horror directors: Suspiria (Dario Argento), Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi), The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci), Baron Blood (Mario Bava), and Torso (Sergio Martino). Tickets: General Admission $30, IHP Members $25.

JeAN-mARie stRAuB & dANiele Huillet selected WoRKs July 15 - 23, 2016 Following a complete retrospective of the films of Jean-marie Straub and Daniele Huillet earlier this year at the museum of modern Art in New York, International House is pleased to present a selection of important works by these two pioneering and controversial filmmakers. Jean-marie Straub (French, b. 1933) and Daniele Huillet (French, 1936–2006) were inseparable partners from 1954 until Huillet’s death, working intimately on every aspect of film production, from script writing to direction to editing. eschewing cinematic conventions and maintaining a rigorous structure, the films (adapted from classic literary works as well as a broad range of theater, poetry and operatic sources) are densely layered works that cycle through history, politics and the human condition in truly unique form.

Friday, July 15 at 7pm

Not RecoNciled, oR oNly VioleNce Helps WHeRe VioleNce Rules Followed by:

tHe BRidegRoom, tHe ActRess, ANd tHe pimp Friday, July 15 at 9pm

eyes do Not WANt to close At All times oR peRHAps oNe dAy Rome Will peRmit HeRself to cHoose iN HeR tuRN (otHoN)

Thursday, July 21 at 7pm

eVeRy ReVolutioN is A tHRoW of tHe dice Followed by:

too eARly/too lAte Friday, July 22 at 7pm

fRom tHe cloud to tHe ResistANce Preceded by:

euRopA 2005, 27 octoBeR Saturday, July 23 at 7pm

itiNeRARy of JeAN BRicARd Followed by:

coRNeille-BRecHt

AUGUST August 4-7

BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL The BlackStar Film Festival is a celebration of cinema focused on work by and about people of African descent and indigenous communities in a global context. BlackStar highlights films that are often overlooked from emerging, established, and mid-career directors, writers and producers working in narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking. For titles and screening times, visit blackstarfest.org or ihousephilly.org/ blackstar.

ADAM ANT: STAND AND DELIVER

Dir. Mike Mansfield & Adam Ant, UK 1981, video 3 min

ADAM ANT: PRINCE CHARMING

Dir. Mike Mansfield & Adam Ant, UK 1981, video, 3 min

THE MODERN IMAGE

Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1978, video 13 min

SOLITUDE

Dir. John Maybury, UK 1981, video 13 min

BUNGALOW DEPRESSION

Dir. Grayson Perry & Jennifer Binnie, UK, 1981, video 4 min

THE PRIVATE VIEW

Dir. The Neo-Naturists, UK, 1981, video, 7 min

Followed by: Program Two – Home Taping

THE ATTITUDE ASSUMED: STILL LIFE WITH STILL BORN Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1980, video, 19 min

SKINHEADS AND ROSES Dir. Jill Westwood, UK, 1983, video, 7 min

Wednesday, August 10 at 7pm

THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD

Dir. Thom Anderson, USA, 2015, DCP, color, 108 min

This film from master cinematic essayist Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself) is a richly digressive journey through cinema. A foundfootage film composed entirely of unidentified, yet often recognizable film clips and concise intertitles written by Andersen.

POP DOLPHIN

Friday, August 19 at 7pm This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Four – Before and After Science

LOST FOR WORDS

Dir. Anna Thew, UK, 1980, video, 26 min

THE GREEN WITCH AND MERRY DIANA Dir. Grayson Perry, UK 1984, video, 20 min

MEN WITHOUT HATS: SAFETY DANCE Dir. Tim Pope, UK, 1982, video, 3 min

Dir. Jeffrey Hinton, UK, ca. 1983, video, 23 min

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS PART 2

TILT

Followed by:

Dir. George Barber, UK, 1984, video, 7 min

BRANSON

Dir. George Barber, UK, 1983, video, 2 min

BLUE MONDAY

Dir. Duvet Brothers, UK, 1984, video, 4 min

THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF Dir. Gorilla Tapes, UK, 1984, video 4 min

ART OF NOISE: LEGS

Dir. George Barber & George Snow, UK 1985, video, 4 min

PASSION TRYPTYCH

Dir. Cordelia Swann, UK, 1982, video, 4 min

Dir. Steven Chivers, UK, 1984, video, 25 min

Program Five – Through a Glass, Darkly

Friday, August 12 at 7pm

This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program One – Performing the Self

STILL LIFE WITH PHRENOLOGY HEAD

Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1979, video, 14 min

HUMAN LEAGUE: DON’T YOU WANT ME Dir. Steve Barron, UK, 1981, video, 4 min

CHAT RAP

Dir. John Scarlett-Davis, UK, 1983, video, 15 min

This program has been supported by a grant from the Dolfinger McMahon Foundation.

Dir. Various, UK, 1984, video, 28 min

Followed by: Program Seven – Entering the Dream Space

THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOULS IN EXCELSIS DEO

THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1984, video, 25 min

THE UNION JACKING UP

THE BRANKS

Saturday, August 27 at 2pm

Dir. Michael Kostiff, UK, 1983, video, 10 min Dir. Akiko Hada, UK, 1982, video, 7 min

GRAYSON/FLOWERS/JEWELS Dir. Jennifer Binnie, UK, 1985, video, 3 min

LYRICAL DOUBT

Dir. Judith Goddard, UK, 1984, video, 16 min

Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1985, video, 18 min

Family Matinee

SEE THE WORLD, FEED YOUR MIND: ANIMATED SHORTS FROM 2016 CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE Dir. Various, digital, in English, 66 min

Zip around the world with this baker’s dozen of high-energy, high-imagination animated shorts. You’ll be dazzled by the light, color and storytelling in this vibrant celebration of creativity.

Wednesday, August 24 at 7pm Wednesday, August 17 at 7pm

THE ACADEMY OF MUSES

RISATE DI GIOIA [THE PASSIONATE THIEF]

Dir. Jose Luis Guerin, Spain, 2015 DCP, color Spanish w/ English subtitles, 92 min

Dir. Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1960, DCP, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 106 min

A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In The City of Sylvia.

On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally, she runs into an old acting acquaintance, who is helping a professional pickpocket steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.

Thursday, August 18 at 7pm This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Three – Just Images

THE COURT OF MIRACLES Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1982, video 44 min

GLORY BOYS?

Dir. Vanda Carter, UK, 1983, video, 4 min

TERRITORIES

Dir. Isaac Julien, UK, 1984, video, 24 min

Thursday, August 25 at 7pm

VITA ACTIVA: THE SPIRIT OF HANNAH ARENDT Dir. Ada Ushpiz, 2015, Israel/Canada, DCP, German/ English/Hebrew w/ English subtitles, 132 min

This thought-provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt’s life.

PSYCHIC TV: UNCLEAN

Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans & John Maybury, UK, 1984, video, 9 min

The majority of these films have, for the most part, remained unseen until now. As part of a major restoration endeavor, the BFI National Archive has digitally remastered twenty Super 8 and 16mm films from this period, including titles by Isaac Julien, John Maybury, Sophie Muller, The Neo-Naturists, Grayson Perry, John Smith, Cordelia Swann, Jill Westwood and Cerith Wyn Evans. Presented in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the launch of MTV, this series is a collision of art, music, fashion and experimental filmmaking from a (not so) bygone era.

THE GREATEST HITS OF SCRATCH VIDEO VOL. 2

LIQUID VIDEO

THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK AUGUST 12 - 26, 2016 Friday, August 12 at 7pm THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF This is Now: Film and Video After Punk is a major new touring program rediscovering key underground films from the post-punk era in the UK (1978–85).

This period saw an explosion in artist filmmaking amongst clubbers, art students, new romantics and members of the post-punk scene, who embraced cheap new domestic technologies and used them to bold and uncompromising effect.

Dir. Various, UK, 1984, video, 16 min

Dir. Sophie Mueller, UK. 1983, video, 26 min

Dir. Cordelia Swann, UK, 1983, video, 12 min

Dir. Richard Heslop, UK, 1983, video, 5 min

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement.

Eva Hesse, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists.

THE MINERS’ CAMPAIGN TAPES: THE LIE MACHINE

Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1981, video, 11 min

23 SKIDOO: F.U.G.I.

Dir. Marcie Begleiter, USA, 2016, DCP, 108 min

Dir. John Smith, UK, 1981, video, 32 min

WINTER JOURNEY IN THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS

Dir. Jill Westwood, UK, 1984, video, 18 min

Dir. Holly Warburton, UK, 1980-84, video, 5 min

EVA HESSE

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: SHINE SO HARD

THE WOUND

ALL VENEER AND NO BACKBONE

Thursday, August 11 at 7pm

Friday, August 26 at 7pm

This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Six – Video Killed the Radio Star

Program One – Performing the Self

STILL LIFE WITH PHRENOLOGY HEAD HUMAN LEAGUE: DON’T YOU WANT ME CHAT RAP ADAM ANT: STAND AND DELIVER ADAM ANT: PRINCE CHARMING THE MODERN IMAGE SOLITUDE BUNGALOW DEPRESSION THE PRIVATE VIEW Followed by:

Program Two – Home Taping

THE ATTITUDE ASSUMED: STILL LIFE WITH STILL BORN SKINHEADS AND ROSES POP DOLPHIN TILT BRANSON BLUE MONDAY

ART OF NOISE: LEGS PASSION TRYPTYCH

Thursday, August 18 at 7pm

Program Three – Just Images

THE COURT OF MIRACLES GLORY BOYS? TERRITORIES PSYCHIC TV: UNCLEAN Friday, August 19 at 7pm Program Four – Before and After Science

LOST FOR WORDS THE GREEN WITCH AND MERRY DIANA MEN WITHOUT HATS: SAFETY DANCE CATHERINE DE MEDICIS PART 2 Followed by:

Program Five – Through a Glass, Darkly

THE WOUND WINTER JOURNEY IN THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS

Saturday, August 27 at 7pm

DRAGON INN

Dir. King Hu, Taiwan, 1967, DCP, color, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, 111 min

The Chinese Wuxia (martial arts) picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn. During the Ming dynasty, the emperor’s minister of defense is framed by a powerful court eunuch and executed, and his family is pursued by secret police. In the ensuing chase, a mysterious band of strangers begins to gather at the remote Dragon Gate Inn, where paths (and swords) will cross.

LIQUID VIDEO THE BRANKS ALL VENEER AND NO BACKBONE 23 SKIDOO: F.U.G.I. GRAYSON/FLOWERS/JEWELS LYRICAL DOUBT Friday, August 26 at 7pm

Program Six – Video Killed the Radio Star

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: SHINE SO HARD THE MINERS’ CAMPAIGN TAPES: THE LIE MACHINE THE GREATEST HITS OF SCRATCH VIDEO VOL. 2 Followed by:

Program Seven – Entering the Dream Space

THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOULS IN EXCELSIS DEO THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE THE UNION JACKING UP

SEPTEMBER RARE EARTHENWARE Dir. Toby Smith, UK, 2015, video, 7 min

TREASURE ISLAND

OBJECT

Dir. Karl Lemieux & David Bryant, Canada, 2014, video, 14 min

SUSPENDED BY SOUND FRITZ LANG’S DESTINY (DER MUDE TOD) Dir. Fritz Lang, Germany, 1921, DCP, tinted b/w, silent w/score, 98 min

A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in an effort to save the life of her fiance.

Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes.

Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7pm

THE LATE MATHIAS PASCAL

Dir. Marcel L’Herbier, France, 1926, digital, b/w, silent with French Intertitles & English Subtitles, 170 min

Mathias, an eccentric dreamer, is trapped in the undertakings of daily life as he suffers his days in a loveless marriage, a dead end job and tyrannized by his ungrateful mother-in-law. Griefstricken by the death of his mother and infant daughter, Mathias flees to Monte Carlo, where a run of luck at roulette wins him a fortune. After his death is falsely reported, Mathias leaps at the chance of a second and adventurous life in Rome.

ALL ROT

Dir. Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2015, 3min

QUIET ZONE

Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 7pm

Dir. Carl-Johan Westregård, Sweden, 2014, video, 13min

(A)SYMMETRY

Dir. Dave Fischer, USA, 2015, video, 3 min

Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 7pm

CAMS

Dir. Elizabeth Lo & Melissa Langer, USA, 2014, video, 7 min

Dir. Tiago Marconi, Brazil, 2015, video, 7 min

SOUNDPRINT

Dir. Monteith McCollum, USA, 2014, video, 8 min

ICARUS

Dir. César Pesquera, France, 2013, video, 4 min

Dir. Paulina Skibi ska, Poland, 2015, 14min

Wednesday, Sept. 21 Special Event

INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY FESTIVAL & MARKET IHP will host the International Peace Day Festival & Market in partnership with Penn Global on IHP’s front patio and Innovation Plaza. The outdoor festival will feature food trucks, local vendors, performances, activities, and more to celebrate and encourage peace and understanding among people of all nations.

Scribe Video Center’s Producers’ Forum

SEMBENE!

Dirs. Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo, USA/ Senegal, 2015, 86 min

Saturday, Sept. 17 at 2pm

With director Samba Gadjigo in person!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. Sembene! tells the unbelievable true story of the father of African cinema, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africans.

Producers’ Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, PNC Arts Alive, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Tickets: General Admission $10, Students/ Seniors $7, Scribe members $5.

Family Matinee

BOY AND THE WORLD

Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7pm

Dir. Alê Abreu, Brazil, digital, musical/no dialogue, 80 min

Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7pm

Academy Award® nominee for Best Animated Feature Film. Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family.

Dir. Billy Woodberry, USA, 2015, DCP, 89 min

Imagine Science Film Festival Program One - Escape Velocity

MISSING ONE PLAYER Dir. Lei Lei, China, 2015, video, 4 min

GEOSYNCHRONOUS

Dir. Toby Smith, UK, 2015, video, 11 min

AND WHEN I DIE, I WON’T STAY DEAD

Billy Woodberry’s (Bless Their Little Hearts) much anticipated second feature film is a fascinating portrait of West Coast beat poet Bob Kaufman, often referred to as “the American Rimbaud.” And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead is a journey into the ferocious beauty of his work, and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral survival.

MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS

Dir. Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, UK, 2014, video, 9 min

UNCLEAR PROOF

Dir. Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2013, video, 1 min

GHOST CELL

Dir. Antoine Delach, France, 2015, video, 7 min

Imagine Science Film Festival Program Three - The Phenomenology of Ghosts

MARS CLOSER

Dir. Luz Olivares Capelle, Austria, 2014, video, 23 min

Dir. Jonathan Minard, USA, 2015, video, 4 min

Friday, Sept. 9 at 7pm DOUBLE FEATURE!

VIOLENT COP

Dir. Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 1989, DCP, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 103 min

Writer/director Takeshi “Beat” Kitano plays Detective Azuma, a hostile cop who’s not afraid of using violent means to catch his culprits.

When his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma’s Dirty Harry-style tactics escalate in his quest for vengeance.

Followed by:

BOILING POINT

Saturday, Sept. 17 at 5pm

ASTROBOTIC: THE MOON AND BEYOND Dir. Annelie Boros & Vera Brückner, Germany/Japan/ Latvia, 2015, video, 16 min

VOSTOK ZERO

Dir. Perttu Inkilä, Velda Parkkinen, & Liis Mehine, Finland, 2015, 5 min

COSMOG

Dir. Cindy Lo, France, 2013, video, 3 min

PLANET ∑

Dir. Momoko Seto, France, 2014, 12 min

Friday, Sept. 16 at 7pm

Imagine Science Film Festival Program Two - Unseen Waves, Invisible Forces

Dir. Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 1990, DCP, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 97 min

FLY, FLY SADNESS

In the second film from Kitano, two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza after their coach is attacked by gangsters.

AS SOON AS WEATHER WILL PERMIT

Dir. Miryam Charles, Canada/Haiti, 2015, video, 6 min

Dir. Su Rynard, Canada, 2015, video, 15 min

APARICIONES THE TINIEST

Dir. Tomislav Šoban, Croatia, 2014, video, 16 min

QUIET TITLE

Dir. Alina Taalman, USA, 2015, video, 36 min

Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7pm Imagine Science Film Festival Program Four - Observer Effects

IN WAKING HOURS

PRIVATE PROPERTY

Dir. Leslie Stevens, USA, 1960, DCP, b/w, 79 min Two homicidal Southern California drifters wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of unhappy housewife Kate Manx, in this long-lost film noir gem written and directed by The Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens.

Dir. Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vanagt, Netherlands, 2015, video, 18 min

Wednesday, Sept. 28

TRACK

OKTOBERFEST

Dir. Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno, Japan, 2015, video, 4 min

BLUE-EYED ME

Dir. Alexey Marfin, UK/Hong Kong, 2015, video, 7 min

INVISIBLE

Dir. Lia Giraud, France, 2014, video, 19 min

IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL TOURING PROGRAM SEPTEMBER 15 - 17, 2016 Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7pm Program One - Escape Velocity

The Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City – the first science film festival created by scientists – emphasizes the importance of storytelling, narrative structure and visual communication. Chosen on the basis of both scientific and artistic merit, the annual roster includes genres that run the gamut from fiction and documentaries to experimental films, and hybrid forms of “docu-fiction.” The primary goal is to break down stereotypes and defy categorization of the “science film,” while the Festival showcases films whose chief purpose is to convey scientific information with artistry, it also celebrates abstract works designed to capture the magic and “cool” of science and its practitioners. This touring series comprises four programs that convey the breadth of the 8th Annual ISF Festival, which took place in NYC October 16-24, 2015.

Friday, Sept. 23 at 7pm

MISSING ONE PLAYER GEOSYNCHRONOUS MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS UNCLEAR PROOF GHOST CELL ASTROBOTIC: THE MOON AND BEYOND MARS CLOSER VOSTOK ZERO COSMOG PLANET ∑ Friday, Sept. 16 at 7pm

Program Two - Unseen Waves, Invisible Forces

FLY, FLY SADNESS AS SOON AS WEATHER WILL PERMIT RARE EARTHENWARE TREASURE ISLAND (A)SYMMETRY QUIET ZONE

Special Event

In celebration of this annual festival held in Munich, Germany since 1810, International House will gather residents and community members for a traditional German cultural experience. The festive event will feature traditional cuisine, a sampling of German beers, German music, dancing, games, and more.

SUSPENDED BY SOUND SOUNDPRINT ICARUS Saturday, Sept. 17 at 5pm

Program Three - The Phenomenology of Ghosts

APARICIONES THE TINIEST QUIET TITLE

Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7pm Program Four - Observer Effects

IN WAKING HOURS TRACK BLUE-EYED ME INVISIBLE CAMS ALL ROT OBJECT

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