This weekend!

Homework x To Be and To Have

Homework: Dir. Abbas Kiarostami (1989) | Iran | Persian | 86 min | DVD

To Be and To Have: Dir. Nicolas Philibert (2002) | France | French | 104 min | DCP

Programmed by Naomi

A child explains why their homework is unfinished. Another waits patiently, sounding out words one syllable at a time. In Kiarostami’s Homework (Mašq-e šab), students reveal the practiced choreography of being “good”: sitting still, speaking properly, knowing when silence is safer than honesty.
Philibert’s To Be and to Have (Être et avoir) observes the daily routine of a rural primary school classroom: recitation, careful listening, small hands learning how to write, count, and repeat.

Each title frames a structure of learning: Homework, the task carried between school and home; Être et avoir, “to be” and “to have,” the two French auxiliary verbs through which action, memory, relation, and selfhood are articulated. 

What both films consider is how children learn to inhabit the world they are given, following the rituals of schooling as responsibility, social life, and ways of knowing take shape beyond the classroom.

Friday, May 22: Homework at 6:00pm; To Be and To Have at 8:30pm
Saturday, May 23: Homework at 6:00 PM; To Be and To Have at 8:30pm
Sunday, May 24: Homework at 3:00 PM; To Be and To Have at 5:30pm

They Live x Fresh Kill

Week 1: April 3, 4, 5

Dir. John Carpenter (1988) | US | English | 94 min | DCP
Dir. Shu Lea Cheang (1994) | UK, US | English | 80 min | DCP

Programmed by Clara

Silvestre

Week 2: April 10, 11, 12

Dir. João César Monteiro (1981) | Portugal | Portuguese | 120 min | DCP

Programmed by Sarah

Totally F***ed Up

Week 3: April 17, 18, 19

Dir. Gregg Araki (1994) | US | English | 78 min | DCP

Programmed by Alyssa

If a Tree Falls

Week 4: April 24, 25, 26

Dir. Marshall Curry (2011) | US, UK | English | 85 min | DCP

Programmed by Julie

Murdering the Devil

Week 5: May 1, 2, 3

Dir. Ester Krumbachová (1970) | Czechoslovakia | Czech | 105 min | DCP

Programmed by Julie

The Juniper Tree

Week 6: May 8, 9, 10

Dir. Nietzchka Keene (1990) | Iceland | English | 79 min | DCP

Programmed by Naomi

Strike on 16mm

Week 7: May 15, 16, 17

Dir. Sergei Eisenstein (1924) | USSR | 95 min | 16mm

Programmed by Clara

Homework x To Be and to Have

Week 8: May 22, 23, 24

Dir. Abbas Kiarostami (1989) | Iran | Persian | 86 min | DVD
Dir. Nicolas Philibert (2002) | France | French | 80 min | DCP

Programmed by Naomi

Moral

Week 9: May 29, 30, 31

Dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1983) | Philippines | Tagalog, English | 138 min | DCP

Programmed by Sarah

Climax

Week 10: June 5, 6, 7

Dir. Gaspar Noé (2018) | Belgium, France | French, English | 138 min

Programmed by Alyssa

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