March Moving Image features Chris Eyre: Filmmaker in Conversation, M.I.A. Documentary, Jean Luc-Godard's The Image Book, and more
Chris Eyre: Smoke Signals and Filmmaker in Conversation
Saturday, March 9, 7pm
Walker Cinema, $10 ($8 Walker members, seniors, students)
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“Storytellers and filmmakers tell us where to look and get information. It’s important to remember we have a voice, especially Native people, to talk about what’s going on.” —Chris Eyre
Join celebrated director Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho) for a screening of his 1998 breakthrough Smoke Signals. A landmark of Native filmmaking, it was the first feature produced, written, directed, and acted by Native talents. Eyre was also the first Native American director to win the Audience Award and the Filmmaker’s Trophy at Sundance and to receive a national release. After the film, Eyre will discuss the impact of Smoke Signals 20 years later, his ongoing body of work, and independent Indigenous filmmaking past, present, and future. Hosted by guest curator Missy Whiteman.
Developed at the Sundance labs, Smoke Signals is based on the story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d’Alene). Eyre’s lyrical debut features follows humorous young storyteller Thomas and his buddy Victor on an epic road trip from Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to bring back the ashes of Victor’s estranged father—found dead in a trailer park in Phoenix. 1998, 35mm, 89 minutes.
This program is part of INDIgenesis: GEN2, a four-week film series screening in the Walker Cinema where Native/Indigenous filmmakers look to the past, present, and future to convey truths about our history to reconnect with Indigenous languages, land, and ways of life.
Don’t miss Chris Eyre’s film Edge of America (March 2) also showing as part of INDIgenesis: GEN2.
Steven Loveridge: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Sunday, March 10, 1:30pm
Walker Cinema, $10 ($8 Walker members, seniors, students)
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Read Noisey interview with M.I.A.
Read The Atlantic on M.I.A.
“M.I.A. created a mashup, cut-and-paste identity that pulled inspiration from every corner of her journey; a sonic sketchbook that blends Tamil politics, Art school punk, hip-hop beats, and the voice of multicultural youth,” —Sundance Institute
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a documentary about controversial rap artist/activist M.I.A. The award-winning film affords remarkably candid access to the pop star, compiled from 22 years of recordings made by her friend, filmmaker Steven Loveridge. The title’s three names represent her metamorphosis from Matangi, the child of a Tamil activist in Sri Lanka, to Maya, British refugee to M.I.A., rap artist.
Copresented by MN Women in Film and Television.
Tipping Points
Thursday, March 14, 7pm
Walker Cinema, Free
In conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Price, this selection of artists’ films is presented by Steven Bode, director of the UK’s Film and Video Umbrella. Echoing Price’s interest in cultural change, vernacular language, fashion, and the archive, the program features work by Duncan Campbell, Bill Morrison, and Carey Young.
Wim Wenders: Wings of Desire
Friday, March 15, 7pm & Saturday, March 16, 2pm
Walker Cinema $10 ($8 Walker members, seniors, students)
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“In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?” – Bruno Ganz
In Wings of Desire, Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—including fears, hopes, and dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. With Bruno Ganz’ recent passing, the Walker Art Center is showing an area premier of this 4K restoration in tribute to him. 1987, 4K DCP, in German, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese with English subtitles, 128 minutes.
New 4K restoration with 5.1 sound mix provided by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by Wim and Donata Wenders. Funding provided by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the FFA, and by the French CNC.
Jean-Luc Godard: The Image Book
Wednesday, March 20 and Friday March 22, 7pm
Saturday, March 23, 2pm
Walker Cinema $10 ($8 Walker members, seniors, students)
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“Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book could not be more of the moment. As ephemeral as a dream…framed with an injunction to keep hope alive.” —Artforum
Awarded the first Special Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard’s latest, The Image Book, is a provocative, iconoclastic collage film that mines, alters, and repurposes pieces of moving image history to reflect on our present moment. With elaborate sound design, The Image Book demonstrates the power of cinema to provoke complex inquiry into the contemporary world. In French with English subtitles. 2019, Switzerland, DCP, 84 min.
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