Winter concerts celebrates Yoko Ono, John Cage
The ensemble celebrates the friendship and artistic connection between avant-garde greats Yoko Ono and John Cage in this program featuring Ono’s “Sky Piece to Jesus Christ” and “Pieces for Orchestra”; Matt Marks’ arrangement of The Beatles’ and Ono’s “Revolution 9”; and John Cage’s String Quartet in Four Parts, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and “Song Books.”
NASHVILLE (1975) in 35mm with Professor Heather Hendershot
“If you had to pick one film to represent 1975 America,” writes celebrated historian Heather Hendershot, “you could not do better than NASHVILLE.” A freewheeling musical satire about the…
HANDS ON A HARDBODY: THE DOCUMENTARY (1997) in 16mm
Two dozen contestants gather around a hardbody pickup truck at a Nissan dealership in East Texas in 1997; seventy-seven hours later, the last person with his or her hand…
UNION (2024) with filmmaker Brett Story in-person
In 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, historic supply chain disruptions, and soaring profits, Amazon workers at Staten Island’s JFK8 Warehouse launched an unprecedented unionization attempt. Led…
SEEDS (2025) with Brittany Shyne in-person
In Brittany Shyne’s debut film SEEDS, reverent attention is given to the rhythms of daily life for Centennial Black farmers in the American South. As a solo cinematographer-director with…
“Real shape of the earth”: Short Films with Ben Balcom
Join us for a program that spotlights the work of Milwaukee-based filmmaker Ben Balcom whose films turn a lens to progressive social projects of the past with a playful…
Avant to Live! The Films of Craig Baldwin with guest Brett Kashmere
San Francisco-based filmmaker Craig Baldwin embodies the subversive spirit of American underground film. Since the 1970s, Baldwin has been crafting dense, corrosive found-footage films that bend the detritus of…
Northwestern University’s 83rd Annual Dolphin Show Presents “Footloose”
America’s largest student-produced musical returns for its 83rd annual production with Footloose! Produced by Aiden Kaliner and JingXi Yap and directed by Katherine Horton, this year’s Dolphin Show presents a…