https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. en-us Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:17:13 -0400 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59794 <p>MODERN TIMES, Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, MODERN TIMES – though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!) – is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.<br /><br />[<em><strong>Please note: due to an electrical issue, we're forced to postpone the Thurs, Aug 28 screening; that screening will instead take place on Fri, Sept 5 at 8:45. Those who have already bought tickets for the Aug 28 screening can use their tickets on Sept 5, or exchange them at the box office for any other upcoming Anthology screening (and if need be, you can contact us for refunds). Thanks for your understanding!</strong></em>]<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, August 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59889 <p>True to its name, Lewis’s lesser-known horror quickie, SOMETHING WEIRD, must be seen to be believed. This wild, incoherent, quasi-collage of acid, ESP, karate, witches, and serial killers (among other things) takes being a product of its time to a new level; its screenwriter was a professor with an impassioned interest in the potential military uses of telepathy and extrasensory perception who hoped the film would be a way to share his warning to the world. While Lewis’s decision to put his friend’s passions on screen may not have been particularly consciousness-raising (or particularly lucrative, either), this oddball flick serves beautifully today as a vivid portrait of the gonzo intersections between the movies, the New Age, and the stranger political concerns of the period. SOMETHING WEIRD is hilarious, fascinating, and absolutely unique.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, August 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59790 <p>In his controversial masterpiece, Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a slytweaking ofhis own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublimephysicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewishbarber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supportingturns, THE GREAT DICTATOR, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s officialentry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates inChaplin’s famously impassioned speech.<br /><br />[<em><strong>Please note: due to an electrical issue, we're forced to postpone the Thurs, Aug 28 screening; that screening will instead take place on Fri, Sept 5 at 6:15. Those who have already bought tickets for the Aug 28 screening can use their tickets on Sept 5, or exchange them at the box office for any other upcoming Anthology screening (and if need be, you can contact us for refunds). Thanks for your understanding!</strong></em>]<br /><br /><strong><strong><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></strong></strong></p> Friday, August 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59885 <p>Though NIGHT OF THE EAGLE is technically a British film, this atmospheric chiller is an AIP picture conceived by two American horror stalwarts, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, both novelists and veterans of “The Twilight Zone”. This film, a sordid psychological thriller about men, women, and the lies they tell each other, is a great entry point into the anxieties at the heart of the witch films that would eventually come to dominate the 1960s horror cycle. When a psychology professor with a focus on superstition learns his wife practices witchcraft, his worldview is tested and his life is brought to the brink. Bridging the gap between classic ’40s horror films like CAT PEOPLE and titans like ROSEMARY’S BABY with crafty plotting and stark cinematography, NIGHT OF THE EAGLE is a haunting look at some of the simmering fears around gender, religion and the social contract that eventually defined the politics of the decade.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, August 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59890 <p>True to its name, Lewis’s lesser-known horror quickie, SOMETHING WEIRD, must be seen to be believed. This wild, incoherent, quasi-collage of acid, ESP, karate, witches, and serial killers (among other things) takes being a product of its time to a new level; its screenwriter was a professor with an impassioned interest in the potential military uses of telepathy and extrasensory perception who hoped the film would be a way to share his warning to the world. While Lewis’s decision to put his friend’s passions on screen may not have been particularly consciousness-raising (or particularly lucrative, either), this oddball flick serves beautifully today as a vivid portrait of the gonzo intersections between the movies, the New Age, and the stranger political concerns of the period. SOMETHING WEIRD is hilarious, fascinating, and absolutely unique.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, August 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59796 <p>“It is stupid to treat Charlie as a clown of genius. If there had never been a cinema he would undoubtedly have been a clown of genius, but the cinema has allowed him to raise the comedy of circus and music hall to the highest aesthetic level. Chaplin needed the medium of the cinema to free comedy completely from the limits of space and time imposed by the stage or the circus arena. […] [The] best Chaplin films can be seen over and over again with no loss of pleasure – indeed the very opposite is the case. It is doubtless a fact that the satisfaction derived from certain gags is inexhaustible, so deep does it lie, but it is furthermore supremely true that comic form and aesthetic value owe nothing to surprise. The latter is exhausted the first time around and is replaced by a much more subtle pleasure, namely the delight of anticipating and recognizing perfection.” –André Bazin, WHAT IS CINEMA<br /><br />A WOMAN (1915, 20 min, 16mm)<br />EASY STREET (1917, 19 min, 16mm)<br />THE CURE (1917, 26 min, 16mm)<br />PAY DAY (1922, 22 min, 35mm)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 90 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, August 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59896 <p>THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR is another brashly feminist film whose idiosyncrasies elevate familiar material, offering a jolt of freshness in a soon-to-be-oversaturated straight-to-video landscape of witch horror in the 1980s. It blends the feminist conventions of the previous decade’s witch horror cycle with the slasher conventions of the day, all filtered through the dreamy arthouse stylings of its director, New German Cinema and Video Nasty pioneer Ulli Lommel, whose collaborators included Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Andy Warhol. When three self-assured young women arrive in a small Wisconsin town, the local men, consumed by greed, fear, and repressed lust, begin a witch hunt against them. Its naturalistic treatment of masculine entitlement to feminine bodies is uncomfortably familiar and viscerally direct. Like SOMETHING WEIRD, the film also incorporates the psychedelic and New Age elements of its moment, serving as a time capsule for a country on the cusp of radical transformation as the counterculture drew its very last gasps.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, August 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59797 <p>Unless otherwise noted, all the films in this program are silent. With the exception of GNIR REDNOW, all films have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.<br /><br />ROSE HOBART (ca. 1936/68, 20 min, 16mm, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. <strong>Brand-new print!</strong>)<br />CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)<br />THE AVIARY (1954, 11 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)<br />GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 min, 16mm. Photographed by Stan Brakhage.)<br />NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)<br />A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt; completed by Lawrence Jordan.)<br />ANGEL (1957, 3 min, 16mm. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt.)<br /><br />“[ROSE HOBART] is a breathtaking example of the potential for surrealistic imagery within a conventional Hollywood film once it is liberated from its narrative causality. […] In Cornell’s later films – both those photographed by Rudy Burckhardt, Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan and the collage films which Jordan completed – Joseph Cornell describes the marginal area where the conscious and the unconscious meet. These are films which affirm a sustained present moment in which a quality of reminiscence is implicated.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 80 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> <p><br /><br /></p> Saturday, August 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59893 <p>While it was largely dismissed at the time as a cheapie softcore rehash of ROSEMARY’S BABY for the jet-set directed by a man better known for TV than film, there’s more to THE MEPHISTO WALTZ than initially meets the eye. This kinky tête-à-tête pairs Jacqueline Bisset and Alan Alda as an artistic young couple tempted by wealth, influence, sex, and black magic. Replete with body swapping, crash zooms, and swinger parties, the film takes the broader strokes of Ira Levin’s classic tale and bends them in a less Catholic, more overtly erotic direction to twisted, surprisingly feminist ends.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, August 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59798 <p>Bruce Conner<br />A MOVIE (1958, 12 min, 16mm)<br />COSMIC RAY (1961, 4 min, 16mm)<br />REPORT (1965, 13 min, 16mm)<br />“Conner stands as a kind of twentieth century Peter Breughel. For like the great Flemish master he distorts the visible world in order to penetrate a reality of being rather than appearances; his vision is cosmic in breadth; he deals with some of the most provocative issues, both artistic and otherwise, of his time; and finally, with an evocative ambiguity and painful irony he touches something which we sometimes call the human experience.” –Carl I. Belz, FILM CULTURE<br /><br />COSMIC RAY and REPORT have been preserved by Anthology through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program funded by The Film Foundation.<br /><br />Tony Conrad<br />THE FLICKER<br />(1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology with funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.)<br />“THE FLICKER is a tremendous harnessing of the raw power, the elemental material of the cinematic medium – light itself – to transport the spectator slowly at first, hardly perceptibly, then accelerating, through a non-objective non-abstract world of sheer energy. Time becomes the compelling pulse of white into black and back, space becomes the unbounded expansion and contraction of force; the screen becomes a new sun, the audience its creatures.” –Ken Kelman<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 65 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, August 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59886 <p>Though NIGHT OF THE EAGLE is technically a British film, this atmospheric chiller is an AIP picture conceived by two American horror stalwarts, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, both novelists and veterans of “The Twilight Zone”. This film, a sordid psychological thriller about men, women, and the lies they tell each other, is a great entry point into the anxieties at the heart of the witch films that would eventually come to dominate the 1960s horror cycle. When a psychology professor with a focus on superstition learns his wife practices witchcraft, his worldview is tested and his life is brought to the brink. Bridging the gap between classic ’40s horror films like CAT PEOPLE and titans like ROSEMARY’S BABY with crafty plotting and stark cinematography, NIGHT OF THE EAGLE is a haunting look at some of the simmering fears around gender, religion and the social contract that eventually defined the politics of the decade.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, August 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59799 <p>Alberto Cavalcanti<br />RIEN QUE LES HEURES / NOTHING BUT THE HOURS<br />1926, 52 min, 35mm<br />One of the very first “city symphonies,” this film interweaves documentary, experimental, and narrative elements that together provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. The Brazilian-born Cavalcanti was at the time a central figure of the French avant-garde, but his fascinating career would later find him making pioneering documentaries for John Grierson’s GPO Film Unit in the UK in the 1930s, dramas, noirs, and musicals for Ealing Studios throughout the 1940s, and finally a wide array of films in Brazil, East Germany, France, and Israel in the years before his death in 1982.<br /><br />Douglass Crockwell<br />GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE (1946, 8 min, 16mm)<br />THE LONG BODIES (1947, 6 min, 16mm)<br />Both films preserved by Anthology Film Archives.<br />“The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful.” –Douglass Crockwell<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 70 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, August 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=08&year=2025#showing-59897 <p>THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR is another brashly feminist film whose idiosyncrasies elevate familiar material, offering a jolt of freshness in a soon-to-be-oversaturated straight-to-video landscape of witch horror in the 1980s. It blends the feminist conventions of the previous decade’s witch horror cycle with the slasher conventions of the day, all filtered through the dreamy arthouse stylings of its director, New German Cinema and Video Nasty pioneer Ulli Lommel, whose collaborators included Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Andy Warhol. When three self-assured young women arrive in a small Wisconsin town, the local men, consumed by greed, fear, and repressed lust, begin a witch hunt against them. Its naturalistic treatment of masculine entitlement to feminine bodies is uncomfortably familiar and viscerally direct. Like SOMETHING WEIRD, the film also incorporates the psychedelic and New Age elements of its moment, serving as a time capsule for a country on the cusp of radical transformation as the counterculture drew its very last gasps.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, August 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60026 <p>Curtis Harrington<br />NIGHT TIDE<br />1963, 84 min, 35mm-to-DCP<br />In Curtis Harrington’s first feature-length film, Dennis Hopper stars as a young sailor who becomes involved with Mora, a woman who may or may not be a living mermaid. Marjorie Cameron appears in a small but crucial role as the sea witch who beckons Mora back to her ocean-home.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Curtis Harrington THE WORMWOOD STAR (1956, 10 min, 16mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.)<br />Before casting her in NIGHT TIDE, Harrington created this remarkable portrait of Cameron the artist, an historically invaluable document since nearly all of the artworks depicted in the film were destroyed by the artist soon after the shoot.<br /><br />Edward Silverstone Taylor STREET FAIR 1959 (1959, 5 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.)<br />Documenting a 1959 street fair on Upper Grant Avenue in San Francisco, which was then the center of Beat culture, this film includes glimpses of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron, and artist Wallace Berman.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 105 min.<br /><br /><em><strong>This program will be introduced by Kelly Filreis, a curator and researcher specializing in occult art and California countercultures.</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, September 03 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60028 <p>Craig Baldwin<br />MOCK UP ON MU<br />2008, 110 min, 16mm-to-digital<br />MOCK UP ON MU is a (mostly) true tale of the occult goings-on at the heart of the American space race. Mixing newly-shot footage with an amazing array of archival clips foraged from schlocky pulp serials, industrial films and genre gems, Baldwin creates a playful “collage-narrative” that exposes the all-too-real, all-too-weird ties between California’s post-war beatnik, alternative religion sub-cultures and outer space travel. At the heart of it all we find such real-life players as jet rocket propulsion pioneer and Aleister Crowley-devotee Jack Parsons, his wife Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and Kenneth Anger actress), and none other than L. Ron Hubbard. Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.<br /><br /><em><strong>The screening will be introduced by filmmaker Jacqueline Castel!</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, September 04 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60163 <p>In his controversial masterpiece, Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a slytweaking ofhis own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublimephysicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewishbarber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supportingturns, THE GREAT DICTATOR, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s officialentry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates inChaplin’s famously impassioned speech.<br /><br />[<em><strong>Please note: due to an electrical issue, we're forced to postpone the Thurs, Aug 28 screening; that screening will instead take place on Fri, Sept 5 at 6:15. Those who have already bought tickets for the Aug 28 screening can use their tickets on Sept 5, or exchange them at the box office for any other upcoming Anthology screening (and if need be, you can contact us for refunds). Thanks for your understanding!</strong></em>]<br /><br /><strong><strong><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></strong></strong></p> Friday, September 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59973 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, September 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60164 <p>MODERN TIMES, Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, MODERN TIMES – though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!) – is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.<br /><br />[<em><strong>Please note: due to an electrical issue, we're forced to postpone the Thurs, Aug 28 screening; that screening will instead take place on Fri, Sept 5 at 8:45. Those who have already bought tickets for the Aug 28 screening can use their tickets on Sept 5, or exchange them at the box office for any other upcoming Anthology screening (and if need be, you can contact us for refunds). Thanks for your understanding!</strong></em>]<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, September 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59959 <p>All films in this program have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.<br /><br />MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON<br />(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.)<br /><br />AT LAND<br />(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid.)<br /><br />A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA<br />(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.) <br /><br />RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME<br />(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.)<br /><br />“MESHES is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. AT LAND has little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life. And RITUAL pulls back even further, to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes because of the larger changes of the earth. RITUAL is about the nature and process of change.” –Maya Deren<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 55 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, September 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59974 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, September 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59960 <p>Dovzhenko’s second film, attacked by Soviet critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen its political impact, remains today a “cinematic poem” as the director named it. Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a mythic search for hidden treasure by two brothers. Dovzhenko wrote: “I did not so much make the picture as sing it out like a songbird.”<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, September 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59975 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, September 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59961 <p>“An epic canvas covering Ukrainian history from WWI to the Russian Civil War, as experienced in Kiev, and culminating in fighting around the arsenal in the heart of the city. Dovzhenko essentially uses a static camera, but with much use of montage and cross-cutting. […] Where Dovzhenko is clearly distinctive, however, is his placing of human events against the majestic backdrop of nature, in particular the sky. Man and nature are one, as a dying Bolshevik asks his comrades to transport and bury him in his native soil.” –David C. Gillespie, EARLY SOVIET CINEMA: INNOVATION, IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, September 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59976 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, September 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59962 <p>(ZEMLYA)<br /><br />A poetic expression of love for both nature and Ukrainian culture by the man who was alternatively branded a deserter by Ukrainians and a Ukrainian nationalist by Russian Soviets. Dovzhenko champions the progression of life, class struggle, and new attitudes for a town changed by a tractor and a fallen hero.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, September 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59977 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, September 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59978 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, September 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59979 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, September 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59980 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, September 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59981 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, September 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59982 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, September 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60030 <p>“Armed conflict hits home in the most vivid way imaginable when mortar fire decimates one wall of the farmhouse belonging to married Ukrainian couple Irka and Tolik. A subsequent plane crash nearby leaves the couple wondering if they should relocate, but stubbornness sets in over being driven from their home by external forces. Winner of the Directing Award in the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic competition, and based on real events, KLONDIKE unveils its harrowing story in striking widescreen compositions, often framed by the shattered space of Irka and Tolik’s living room. Set in 2014, when conflict in the Donbas region began, Maryna Er Gorbach’s powerful drama takes on even greater pertinence as a precursor to the current war in Ukraine.” –BAMPFA<br /><br />“Working with gifted cinematographer Sviatoslav Bulakovskiy, Er Gorbach shoots [several] sequences in one continuous take…as if she were capturing events in real time. The formally audacious setups recall those in Andrei Tarkovsky’s THE SACRIFICE (also set in a country house as disaster strikes), as well as the long-take masterpieces of Hungarian auteur Miklós Jancsó.” –Jordan Mintzer, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER<br /><br />“An exhilarating piece of cinema, meticulously framed, exquisitely blocked, and beautifully performed, this is a film about the choices we make as the world is torn apart.” –Andrew Haigh<br /><br /><em><strong>The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Maryna Er Gorbach!</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, September 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59983 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, September 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59984 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, September 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60037 <p>The cultural impact of Malcolm X has proven immense: his assassination marked the birth of the 1960s-70s Black Arts Movement, he became the central icon of 1980s-90s hip-hop, and he has continued to inspire and influence artmaking across every medium. His rhetoric is remixed as rap in documentarian Dick Fontaine’s MALCOLM X: NO SELL OUT (1984) music video, made with Pat Harley. Magicians in an experimental laboratory, artists and filmmakers John Akomfrah and Jenn Nkiru reveal how the intertwinement of aesthetics and politics function to re-author a self-determined Black history. Nkiru’s mesmerizing REBIRTH IS NECESSARY features a trio of NOI women performing a brief salute within a constellation of references points – James Baldwin, Alice Coltrane, Kwame Nkrumah, Kathleen Cleaver, Sun Ra – which converge and collide in a vision of Blackness across time. Made while Akomfrah was a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, the multi-voiced testimony of SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X (1993) includes Betty Shabazz, Greg Tate, and Thulani Davis in a knotted study of memory making, fusing the mobility of jazz and the sculptural stillness of photography. As historical retellings, they each layer and remix the cultural narrative and aesthetic imprint of Malcolm X.<br /><br />Dick Fontaine MALCOLM X: NO SELL OUT (1984, 6 min, video)<br /><br />Jenn Nkiru REBIRTH IS NECESSARY (2017, 10 min, digital)<br /><br />John Akomfrah<br />SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X<br />1993, 52 min, video<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 75 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, September 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-59985 <p><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON FROM SEPT 5-7!</strong><br /><br />(DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS)<br /><br />Nele Wohlatz made a name for herself on the film festival circuit with her first solo feature, 2016’s EL FUTURO PERFECTO, a documentary-fiction hybrid which revolved around a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in Argentina. Her new work, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN, extends the earlier film’s interest in exploring immigration, cross-border travel, culture shock, and the class divisions that global economic networks throw into stark relief. Born and raised in Germany, Wohlatz has consistently made films in and about Latin America, and like EL FUTURO PERFECTO, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN centers on Asian travelers and immigrants, this time in the context of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. On the occasion of a visit to NYC by Wohlatz, we present a weekend of screenings of the new film, with Wohlatz here in person.<br /><br />Co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films. On August 27 at 7pm, the Goethe-Institut New York will host Wohlatz for a screening of EL FUTURO PERFECTO. For more details visit: <a href="https://www.goethe.de/prj/gfo/en/kal/ver.cfm?event_id=26851621">www.germanfilmoffice.us</a> <br /><br />“Kai, a Taiwanese girl, arrives in Brazil from Argentina after being stood up by her boyfriend. Struggling with the language, she explores the city and meets Fu Ang, a Chinese man who owns an umbrella shop. There, she discovers a box of postcards revealing the story of Xiaoxin, another Chinese girl with a similar journey. Xiaoxin’s story reveals her connection to Fu Ang and a group of Chinese workers whose experiences of labor exploitation, language barriers and cultural clashes echo those of Kai. Wohlatz structures her film via anecdotal conversations, moments of confusion and the crossing paths of different characters, reflecting the protagonists’ sense of uncertainty and displacement. This co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and Germany portrays characters navigating their way between languages, countries and cultures, creating a psychological non-place along the way and exploring the rare connections and unexpected bonds formed by their movements.” –Diego Lerer, VIENNALE<br /><br />“‘Will I smell normal again when I return home?’ asks Fu Ang, terrified of losing his identity after many years living in Brazil. His fears are shared by two of the film’s other protagonists, the broken traveler Kai and young Xiaoxin. Individually and as a group, they illustrate the lives of people who have given up their roots in order to wander the liminal spaces of a globalized world with a feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. Enchanting and funny, SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN disrupts the artificial framework of cinematic narrative and, under a blazing sun, brings to life a subdued emotional landscape in which the wheels of buses turn in different directions and fleeting moments of understanding become islands in a sea full of sharks.” –Vojtěch Kočárník, KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, September 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2025#showing-60040 <p>Three segments demonstrate how public television and broadcast media were claimed as a vehicle for exercising Black autonomy over communication, representation, organizing, and mass education. “Black Journal” (1968-1977) was the first nationally televised public affairs program to focus on Black people under the direction of Black media workers. Under the leadership of William Greaves and the collaborative network of documentarians and artists, it prioritized independence and self-determination, covering political, cultural, economic, and social topics with international breadth, while also inventing a format copied by mainstream broadcast networks which continues to have an influence on Black documentary practice. “Black Television” includes episodes of “Black Journal” (made for the fourth and seventh anniversaries of the assassination of Malcolm X); Madeleine Anderson’s 1967 A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X; and the 1972 WHO KILLED MALCOLM? A groundbreaking documentarian and producer, the centenarian Anderson created a multifaceted portrait of Malcolm X through wide-ranging records, asserting the centrality of Betty Shabazz and charting his evolution from early life to American Black Nationalism to an internationalist struggle for human rights – a point reiterated in Malcolm X’s closing address to students in Selma. WHO KILLED MALCOLM? relies on a comparable wealth of visual materials, including testimonies, to sketch a more detailed profile of his life and to probe the questions left around the circumstances of his assassination. Drawing on an indirect lineage from “Black Journal”, the 1990s video collective Black Planet Productions (whose motto was “The Revolution, Televised”) took an experimental approach to toggle between historical impact and contemporary understandings in X 1/2: THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X.<br /><br />Madeline Anderson<br />A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X<br />1967, 16 min, 16mm<br /><br />Black Planet Productions<br />X 1/2: THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X<br />1994, 45 min, video<br /><br />Black Journal [Episode 51]<br />WHO KILLED MALCOLM?<br />1972, 45 min, video<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 110 min.<br /><br /><strong>This program will be free of charge / suggested donation. Advance tickets are available for a suggested donation cost of $8, or will be available at the box office during the evening of each screening for free, or for whatever donation amount audience members wish.</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, September 11