“At once humorous, melancholy, sardonic and wistful. … Using an appealing slice-of-life observational approach, the directors have crafted a warmhearted though not rose-tinted indie tale.” —Variety More
Widely recognized for its presentation of moving-image arts that define and influence our time, the Walker Film/Video program oversees a 21st-century cinema and a vast collection of global and avant-garde films, documentaries, and video works. More
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Crosscuts
Headline Rewind: WikiLeaks and All the President’s Men
Mar 1 - FV
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Headline Rewind: The Oscars and Ingmar Bergman
Feb 22 - FV
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Headline Rewind: Meteor and Stalker
Feb 15 - FV
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Report from Berlin: 63rd Berlinale
Feb 14 - FV
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Chris Sullivan on Michael Jordan, Jean Piaget, and The Sopranos
Feb 6 - FV
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Smash Cuts: Django Unchained
Feb 1 - FV
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Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund Secures Funding
Jan 31 - FV
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8-Ball: Luther Price
Jan 31
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Crosscuts
Headline Rewind: WikiLeaks and All the President’s Men
Mar 1 - FV
Crosscuts
Headline Rewind: The Oscars and Ingmar Bergman
Feb 22 - FV
Crosscuts
Headline Rewind: Meteor and Stalker
Feb 15 - FV
Crosscuts
Report from Berlin: 63rd Berlinale
Feb 14 - FV
Crosscuts
Chris Sullivan on Michael Jordan, Jean Piaget, and The Sopranos
Feb 6 - FV
Crosscuts
Smash Cuts: Django Unchained
Feb 1 - FV
Crosscuts
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund Secures Funding
Jan 31 - FV
Crosscuts
8-Ball: Luther Price
Jan 31
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Dialogue / Interview
Olivier Assayas Regis Dialogue with Kent Jones
Jan 25 - FV
Dialogue / Interview
Julian Schnabel Regis Dialogue with Darsie Alexander
Jan 14 - FV
Films by Artists
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cactus River (Khong Lang Nam)
Oct 2012 - FV
Trailer
The Renegades: American Avant-Garde Film, 1960–1973
Sep 2012 - FV
Dialogue / Interview
Lawrence Kasdan Regis Dialogue with Scott Foundas
Apr 2012 - FV
Dialogue / Interview
Harry Belafonte Regis Dialogue with Scott Foundas
Mar 2012 - FV
Dialogue / Interview
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution Introduction and Post-Screening Q & A
Nov 2011 - FV
Dialogue / Interview
Miranda July The Future Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
Jul 2011
Featured Event
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Matt Levine & Jeremy Meckler
A Year in Close-Up: Still Dots and the Blue Velvet Project
November 29 was a momentous day: After one year and 102 blog posts, Still Dots was complete. Since December 13, 2011, we’d been pulling one frame for every 62 seconds of screen time in Carol Reed’s The Third Man and writing a biweekly analysis of it… More

Scott Foundas
Noah Baumbach: Visibly Human
In his films, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Kicking and Screaming) punctuates “cruelty with tenderness, always taking pains to make sure his characters remain visibly human,” writes Village Voice critic Scott Foundas, who… More

Kathie Smith
Handmade Spirits: Chris Sullivan’s Ethereal Animated Worlds
Fifteen years in the making, Chris Sullivan’s painstakingly hand-crafted film Consuming Spirits peers into twin ethereal realms, lurking familial ghosts and the inebriating spirits that haunt its… More

Matt Levine
A Poetic Archaeology of Cinema: The Films of Bill Morrison
In Bill Morrison’s films, time appears as both a historical process and as an autonomous, existential force to which all matter falls prey. Whether treating the march of time as fodder for a… More
Matt Levine & Jeremy Meckler
A Year in Close-Up: Still Dots and the Blue Velvet Project
November 29 was a momentous day: After one year and 102 blog posts, Still Dots was complete. Since December 13, 2011, we’d been pulling one frame for every 62 seconds of screen time in Carol Reed’s … More
Genevieve Yue
Films the Color of Blood: On The Renegades
“The official cinema all over the world is running out of breath. It is morally corrupt, esthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring.” So declared the New American Cinema Group in a manifesto sent out in… More
Ben Stork
Filming at the Site of Urgency
The opening of Jem Cohen’s Occupy Wall Street newsreels—shot through the window of a Brooklyn subway car—uncannily echo a series of videos from two years earlier. Cell phone footage of an Oakland train platform documents the… More















