Last year was hard on Minneapolis. The winter was brutal and unrelenting, the Twins perpetually disappointing. Even Kevin Love’s record breaking double-double streak couldn’t lift the spirits of our Eeyore-esque worldviews, (everybody forgot my birthday … ). What we may not have noticed was that we were missing our semiannual outdoor art injections, as 2010-11 was a year without Summer Music and Movies…

Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know), who last visited the Walker in 2000 to show video and performance work from her Big Miss Moviola project, returns on July 8 to present her second feature, The Future, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. Deftly balancing bathos and pathos, July’s film is a funny and unsettling tale about impending maturity and the responsibility…

Curated by IFP MN and the Walker Art Center, MNTV showcases the finest films and videos produced in the state over the past two years. The showcase is a series of three one-hour broadcasts on TPT, featuring short films by Minnesota filmmakers of all levels of filmmaking experience. Submit your films now! There is no cost to apply! • it will be broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television (TPT-TV) and…

Most of Ming Wong’s work is installation-based—video projections looped in galleries for unwitting spectators to wander in at any point in the video’s eternal repetition. What’s strange about this, is that Wong’s work is generally in direct dialogue with conventional, theater-based cinema. His radical recasting, restaging, and recontextualizing are the lifeblood of his work. From In Love for the Mood…

Between the complete 5-film Terrence Malick retrospectiveand Artists’ Cinema series,  the month of May is shaping into a cinephile’s delight. On Wednesday, May 11, the cinematic mayhem continues at the Walker with a special FREE screening of The First Grader, the latest effort by English television and film director Justin Chadwick. An official selection of the Telluride, Toronto, and London film…

In Fall 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in 8 rounds in The Rumble in the Jungle, Roman Polanski’s Chinatown was playing in theaters, and a brand new Walker film/video department opened their first gallery exhibition. This year’s Artists’ Cinema series, Artists’ Cinema 2011: Projected Images is named in honor of the seminal 1974 exhibition, an exhibition which is still influential as one…

Blast Theory is a performance/trans-media artist group based in Brighton, UK, and has worked for the past ten years in the field of mobile experience art. Their project Ulrike and Eamon Compliantwas at the 2009 Venice Biennial, and they have several of their works being played out around the world at any one time. A Machine to See Withis a locative cinema project set for the streets of Minneapolis…

Miral is the final film in the Julian Schnabel: Artist Director Retrospective.  This Friday, director Julian Schnabel will introduce Miral for its Minneapolis premiere and engage in an audience Q & A immediately following the screening. Saturday, Julian will sit down with Walker chief curator Darsie Alexander for a Regis Dialogue. Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Miralhas toured…

Headed south of Cancun for a self imposed research trip, I detoured across the jungle for a quick weekend to explore Méridabefore embarking on my work. Charming, intimate, and beautiful, Mérida invited the resulting project to happen within her city walls instead. Return trips, a house purchase, neighbors from Cuba, Manolo Rivera (1941-2006), Manolo’s adopted son Mark Swain and stays at their hotel-museum…