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…

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…

New York Times film reviewer (and one-time Regis dialogue interviewer) A. O. Scott placed Olivier Assayas’ Carlos at number 3 on his list of the best films of 2010. Read the full article here. Scott summarizes the 6-hour Assayas film as “The failure of global revolution as farce, melodrama, erotic thriller and music video.” The Walker is proud to have been one of Carlos’ only big screen locations, but…