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Sound for Silents 2026: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2026: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

Free Events

Filmmaker in Conversation: Titicut Follies

Filmmaker in Conversation: Titicut Follies

Talks and Lectures

Global Lens Film Series: Hollow City (Na cidade vazia)

Global Lens Film Series: Hollow City (Na cidade vazia)

Screenings

Craig Baldwin Artist Talk and Filmmaking Class

Craig Baldwin Artist Talk and Filmmaking Class

Film at the Walker: 2006-2007 Season Sneak Preview

Film at the Walker: 2006-2007 Season Sneak Preview

Talks and Lectures

Filmmakers in Conversation: Ericka Beckman

Filmmakers in Conversation: Ericka Beckman

Talks and Lectures

Sound for Silents 2024: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2024: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Screenings

Cue the Strings – a film about Low by Philip Harder

Cue the Strings – a film about Low by Philip Harder

Screenings

Collection Playlist: Film No. 11 (Mirror Animations) & Something Between Us

Collection Playlist: Film No. 11 (Mirror Animations) & Something Between Us

Screenings

Featured Playlist: SQÜRL Selects Experimental Films

Featured Playlist: SQÜRL Selects Experimental Films

Free Events

Films by Man Ray, Music by SQÜRL

Films by Man Ray, Music by SQÜRL

Screenings

Featured Playlist: Short Films by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar

Featured Playlist: Short Films by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar

Free Events

Chris Eyre: Smoke Signals and Filmmaker in Conversation

Chris Eyre: Smoke Signals and Filmmaker in Conversation

Screenings

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2018

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2018

Free Thursday Nights

Filmmakers in Conversation: Joshua Oppenheimer with The Act of Killing

Filmmakers in Conversation: Joshua Oppenheimer with The Act of Killing

Todd Haynes: 20 Years of Killer Films

Todd Haynes: 20 Years of Killer Films

Heroic Grace: Chinese Martial Arts Films

Heroic Grace: Chinese Martial Arts Films

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Films of Derek Jarman

The Films of Derek Jarman

Doris Dörrie, 2000

Doris Dörrie, 2000

The Independent Film Channel: Films by Illeana Douglas

The Independent Film Channel: Films by Illeana Douglas

What Does It Mean to Have an Indigenous Lens in Film?

What Does It Mean to Have an Indigenous Lens in Film?

“Eighteen and Anxious:” David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak on Vietnam, Dissent, and Purple Haze

“Eighteen and Anxious:” David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak on Vietnam, Dissent, and Purple Haze

An Indigenous Lens Seeks Self-Determination, Representationally and Formally

An Indigenous Lens Seeks Self-Determination, Representationally and Formally

Restoration Gives New Life to Lost, Forgotten, or Dismissed Films

Restoration Gives New Life to Lost, Forgotten, or Dismissed Films

Against a Passive Eye: Tom DeBiaso on Film in the Cities

Against a Passive Eye: Tom DeBiaso on Film in the Cities

Uncovering Untitled: An Interview with Filmmaker Nazli Dincel

Uncovering Untitled: An Interview with Filmmaker Nazli Dincel

The (Un)Covered Wagon: An Arapaho Filmmaker Unpacks the Complexities of an Early Western

The (Un)Covered Wagon: An Arapaho Filmmaker Unpacks the Complexities of an Early Western

Imagination Is Power: Stories from Chicago Film Archives

Imagination Is Power: Stories from Chicago Film Archives

How Can Film Restoration Rewrite the Cinematic Canon?

How Can Film Restoration Rewrite the Cinematic Canon?

Bong Joon Ho, 2020

Bong Joon Ho, 2020

Luca Guadagnino, 2019

Luca Guadagnino, 2019

California Dreaming: James Benning's Los

California Dreaming: James Benning's Los

Small-Gauge Alchemy: Super 8 Filmmaking Across Generations

Small-Gauge Alchemy: Super 8 Filmmaking Across Generations

Mobile Cinema and Grassroots Screenings: Beyond the Twin Cities

Mobile Cinema and Grassroots Screenings: Beyond the Twin Cities

Julia Reichert, 2020

Julia Reichert, 2020

The Expansive, Inexhaustible Curiosity of Julia Reichert

The Expansive, Inexhaustible Curiosity of Julia Reichert

The Beauty Within Complexity: Mark Jenkin’s Bait

The Beauty Within Complexity: Mark Jenkin’s Bait

An Indigenous Lens Is a Tool to Create Understanding

An Indigenous Lens Is a Tool to Create Understanding

Fascist Charades: Kim Jong-un, Hollywood, and Mario García Torres

Fascist Charades: Kim Jong-un, Hollywood, and Mario García Torres

Summer Heat ’68: Fracas at the Cinema

Summer Heat ’68: Fracas at the Cinema

Water Bearer Films

Water Bearer Films

Duo Films

Duo Films

Centron Educational Films

Centron Educational Films

Film Tokyo Production

Film Tokyo Production

Lara Lee Films

Lara Lee Films

Mungo-Film

Mungo-Film

Handel Films

Handel Films

Nitrate Films

Nitrate Films

An HBO-TVS Films-Hungarian Television Co-Production

An HBO-TVS Films-Hungarian Television Co-Production

Telefilm Canada

Telefilm Canada

The National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada

Australian Film Commission

Australian Film Commission

Les Films du Palais-Royal

Les Films du Palais-Royal

Hungarofilm

Hungarofilm

40 Acres and a Mule Film Works

40 Acres and a Mule Film Works

Heymann Brothers Films

Heymann Brothers Films

Red Horse Films

Red Horse Films

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

Imagination Is Power: How Bidayyat Captures Syria on Film

Imagination Is Power: How Bidayyat Captures Syria on Film

Remembering Sally Dixon, a Champion of Avant-Garde Film (1932–2019)

Remembering Sally Dixon, a Champion of Avant-Garde Film (1932–2019)

Watch: Three Hans Richter Films Scored by Marijuana Deathsquads

Watch: Three Hans Richter Films Scored by Marijuana Deathsquads

Agnès Varda, 2001

Agnès Varda, 2001

Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon, 2016

Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon, 2016

Live-Scoring the Avant-Garde: Martin Dosh on Sound for Silents

Live-Scoring the Avant-Garde: Martin Dosh on Sound for Silents

Ang Lee, 2005

Ang Lee, 2005

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2005

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2005

An Indigenous Lens Benefits Us—and American Cinema at Large

An Indigenous Lens Benefits Us—and American Cinema at Large

Wim Wenders, 1991

Wim Wenders, 1991

Gus Van Sant, 2003

Gus Van Sant, 2003

This October at Walker Cinema: Bold International Voices and Cinematic Innovation

This October at Walker Cinema: Bold International Voices and Cinematic Innovation

We Are the Wind We've Been Waiting for: Send Me to the Clouds

We Are the Wind We've Been Waiting for: Send Me to the Clouds

Planting a Seed: On the Creation, Loss, and Restoration of Horace Jenkins’s Cane River

Planting a Seed: On the Creation, Loss, and Restoration of Horace Jenkins’s Cane River

Luca Guadagnino Dialogue with Scott Foundas

Luca Guadagnino Dialogue with Scott Foundas

Leos Carax, 2000

Leos Carax, 2000

Lucy Walker Dialogue with Scott Foundas

Lucy Walker Dialogue with Scott Foundas

Béla Tarr, 2007

Béla Tarr, 2007

Noah Baumbach, 2013

Noah Baumbach, 2013

Lucy Walker, 2017

Lucy Walker, 2017

Midwest Film and Video Showcase, 05/19/94

Midwest Film and Video Showcase, 05/19/94

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Women in the Director’s Chair: A Selection of Films, tape 1

Women in the Director’s Chair: A Selection of Films, tape 1

Women in the Director’s Chair: A Selection of Films, tape 2

Women in the Director’s Chair: A Selection of Films, tape 2

William Wegman Films: 1)Stand By For Boris Goodinov & 2) A Few Polanaises

William Wegman Films: 1)Stand By For Boris Goodinov & 2) A Few Polanaises

Films by Nauman, Jonas, Mann, Wegman

Films by Nauman, Jonas, Mann, Wegman

Good Company: Bing Crosby Film Clips

Good Company: Bing Crosby Film Clips

Samuel Beckett’s Film

Samuel Beckett’s Film

The Independent Film Channel: Spike Lee Featurette

The Independent Film Channel: Spike Lee Featurette

The Independent Film Channel: Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Film Channel: Independent Spirit Awards

Midwest Film and Video Showcase, 05/07-21/99

Midwest Film and Video Showcase, 05/07-21/99

Peter Greenaway: Short Film Sample

Peter Greenaway: Short Film Sample

Film Portrait

Film Portrait

Jerome Hill Films

Jerome Hill Films

Partizan Entertainment : Michel Gondry Short Films

Partizan Entertainment : Michel Gondry Short Films

Nicole Hewitt Films

Nicole Hewitt Films

Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection 1920-1923

Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection 1920-1923

21 Films

21 Films

William Klein: Trois Films

William Klein: Trois Films

Five Films

Five Films

Live scores for films by Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, and Rene Clair

Live scores for films by Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, and Rene Clair

Live scores for films in the Ruben/Bentson collection

Live scores for films in the Ruben/Bentson collection

Why Has 87% of Icelandic Film Centre Funding Gone to Men?

Why Has 87% of Icelandic Film Centre Funding Gone to Men?

Four Short Films 1972-1973

Four Short Films 1972-1973

Film positive still from Driving on the Echo Trail (St. Louis County) from Regenbogen Lake to Ed Shave Lake, August 30, 1993 from On a Balcony

Film positive still from Driving on the Echo Trail (St. Louis County) from Regenbogen Lake to Ed Shave Lake, August 30, 1993 from On a Balcony

Eric Emerson (Chelsea Girls) from The Anthology Film Archives portfolio

Eric Emerson (Chelsea Girls) from The Anthology Film Archives portfolio

Untitled from the Anthology Film Archives portfolio

Untitled from the Anthology Film Archives portfolio

Words F.A.F.A. from the Anthology Film Archives portfolio

Words F.A.F.A. from the Anthology Film Archives portfolio

March Free First Saturday features Kids' Film Fair, Animation Art Activity, and Indigenous Youth Films

March Free First Saturday features Kids' Film Fair, Animation Art Activity, and Indigenous Youth Films

Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside features a Live Score by Marijuana Deathsquads including Justin Vernon, Benson Ramsey, and Channy Leaneagh to Silent Films by Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and René Clair

Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside features a Live Score by Marijuana Deathsquads including Justin Vernon, Benson Ramsey, and Channy Leaneagh to Silent Films by Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and René Clair

Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside features a Live Score by Martin Dosh and his ensemble Dosh Quintet to Silent Short Films from the 1920s

Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside features a Live Score by Martin Dosh and his ensemble Dosh Quintet to Silent Short Films from the 1920s

March Moving Image features Experimental Filmmaker Bill Morrison, Adult Animated Films, and Congolese Drama Félicité

March Moving Image features Experimental Filmmaker Bill Morrison, Adult Animated Films, and Congolese Drama Félicité

Close Ties: Melinda Ward and Emily Galusha on Film in the Cities and the Walker

Close Ties: Melinda Ward and Emily Galusha on Film in the Cities and the Walker

A New Gaagiixiid Story: Gwaai Edenshaw on Indigenous Language and Making the First Film in Haida

A New Gaagiixiid Story: Gwaai Edenshaw on Indigenous Language and Making the First Film in Haida

Documentary Film Can Reach Both Heart and Head

Documentary Film Can Reach Both Heart and Head

Films as a Place for Black Joy

Films as a Place for Black Joy

INDIgenesis Online—Watch the Revitalization Short Films Program

INDIgenesis Online—Watch the Revitalization Short Films Program

“Lend Your Ear to the Dead:” Paul Anton Smith on Mining Cinematic History for his New Film

“Lend Your Ear to the Dead:” Paul Anton Smith on Mining Cinematic History for his New Film

How Are Revolutionary Cuban Films Still Revolutionary Today?

How Are Revolutionary Cuban Films Still Revolutionary Today?

Lawrence Kasdan, 2012

Lawrence Kasdan, 2012

Kelly Reichardt, 2010

Kelly Reichardt, 2010

Peter Greenaway, 1997

Peter Greenaway, 1997

Instead of Smashing Icons, Film Restoration F*cks with the Canon

Instead of Smashing Icons, Film Restoration F*cks with the Canon

Jane Campion, 1995

Jane Campion, 1995

INDIgenesis Online—Watch the Short Films of Indigenous Lens: Our Reality

INDIgenesis Online—Watch the Short Films of Indigenous Lens: Our Reality

The Power to Tell Everyone’s Story: An Interview with Cheryl Dunye

The Power to Tell Everyone’s Story: An Interview with Cheryl Dunye

Legacy of ’68: Sticks and Stones

Legacy of ’68: Sticks and Stones

Imagination is Power: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military

Imagination is Power: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military

To Survive on One’s Own Terms: Patrick Staff on Weed Killer

To Survive on One’s Own Terms: Patrick Staff on Weed Killer

A Gear Slips: On Obsession, Evidence, and A Gray State’s David Crowley

A Gear Slips: On Obsession, Evidence, and A Gray State’s David Crowley

Robert Redford, 2016

Robert Redford, 2016

Terry Gilliam, 1998

Terry Gilliam, 1998

Danny Glover, 1992

Danny Glover, 1992

Spike Lee, 1996

Spike Lee, 1996

Jim Jarmusch, 1994

Jim Jarmusch, 1994

Olivier Assayas, 2010

Olivier Assayas, 2010

Art Can Counter Fast Media with Slowness

Art Can Counter Fast Media with Slowness

Danny Glover PSA for the Walker Art Center (1992)

Danny Glover PSA for the Walker Art Center (1992)

Frederick Wiseman, 2003

Frederick Wiseman, 2003

Edward Pressman, 1991

Edward Pressman, 1991

Isabella Rossellini, 2006

Isabella Rossellini, 2006

Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009

Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009

James Ivory, 1990

James Ivory, 1990

Watch: Mario García Torres Opening-Night Performance

Watch: Mario García Torres Opening-Night Performance

William Klein, 2009

William Klein, 2009

Keith Carradine, 1991

Keith Carradine, 1991

Hanif Kureishi, 2001

Hanif Kureishi, 2001

An Indigenous Lens Is About More than Our Films—It's About Our Community

An Indigenous Lens Is About More than Our Films—It's About Our Community

Spending time with Letter from Siberia and Season of Dying Water

Spending time with Letter from Siberia and Season of Dying Water

2018: The Year According to Amir George

2018: The Year According to Amir George

My Art Practice is Masochistic Behavior

My Art Practice is Masochistic Behavior