Seven years ago, while the Walker was under construction, a young Thai filmmaker named Apichatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul was brought to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) for a surrogate Regis Dialogue and Retrospective called “New Language from Thailand.” Of Weerasethakul’s first feature film, Mysterious Object at Noon, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum writes: The film made a strong impression on me…

“This is a guy from Cuba named Julian Hernandez singing a song in Esperanto, “Tiel la Mondo Iras,” which means, ‘that’s the way the world goes.’ I guarantee that if you listen to the whole song, it will become irrevocably, perhaps even maddeningly, stuck in your head. It is profoundly catchy…I have a fantasy of this song/video becoming a huge viral smash hit.”

Sam Green on Utopia in Four Movements“With this film, you have to be there. It’s almost a performance or dance piece. Watching something about utopia, and doing it all together with a lot of people in the same room, creates an energy. It’s inspiring… . The more I thought of it, the more I realized utopia was a collective experience.” The Walker’s Expanding the Frame series not only highlights changes in…

The Walker’s Expanding the Frame series, which is now in its fourth year, is dedicated to showcasing artists who are willing to traverse and explore the gaps between mediums and challenge the audience to reconsider traditional modes of cinematic experiences. As a result of the ongoing contemporary bombardment of moving-images in everyday life, one could argue that audiences have been lulled into a…