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Approaching movies as an active viewing experience, staff in the Cinema Arts Program view the projection screen as a portal to investigation. We engage with filmmakers who create works that inspire the imagination and instigate conversation. Animation, documentary, poetic observations, and abstract visuals serve a broad spectrum of curious audiences while blending the methods and aesthetics of artists and scientists. Through our programming, we aim to provide an opportunity for visitors to explore the compelling people, places, and ideas that extend through the museum and beyond. Our collection of films and events offer a rich resource for public audiences, and also provide an important research collection for both our teaching programs and exhibit development teams.
There's always something interesting happening here—check out our upcoming events calendar.
Thursday, September 28, 2017 • 6:30–9:30 p.m.
Playful and artful projects can push technology further and inform developers as to the unexpected ways artists and enthusiasts approach their designs. Tonight, we consider this landscape in which wholly new universes have been crafted to prompt creativity, observation, inclusion, education, and, occasionally, designed confusion.
Thursday, September 28, 2017 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Take a VR journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in remote west Australian at Collisions. Consider wholly new universes at Field of View: Play. And examine whether you can age slower than your twin at Full-Spectrum Science: Time.
Sunday, September 24, 2017 • 11:00 a.m., Noon, and 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m.
Join us for artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth’s poetic virtual reality journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian Pilbara desert. Wallworth's invites participants to experience an alternative understanding of long‐term decision-making through the perspective of one of the world’s oldest cultures. Collisions is part of the Field of View series.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Throughout history, new technologies—from the printing press to the moving image camera—have influenced and transformed storytelling. Tonight, we’ll consider the ways currently emerging technologies are contributing to the evolution of storytelling.
Thursday, September 21, 2017 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Join us for artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth’s poetic virtual reality journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian Pilbara desert. And learn how currently emerging technologies are contributing to the evolution of storytelling at Field of View: Storytelling.
Thursday, September 21–Sunday, October 22, 2017 • Days and times vary
Join us for artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth’s poetic virtual reality journey to the homeland of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian Pilbara desert. Wallworth's invites participants to experience an alternative understanding of long‐term decision-making through the perspective of one of the world’s oldest cultures. Collisions is part of the Field of View series.
Thursday, September 14, 2017 • 6:30–9:30 p.m.
As new tools emerge for crafting increasingly immersive visual experiences, those working with them see their great potential to lead to profound emotional reactions and deep revelations. See how immersive experiences can connect us more deeply with the world and people around us, and how these connections may stick with us longer after the experience is over.
Thursday, September 14–Sunday, October 22, 2017
We live in an era of booming interest in new media technologies, and the possibilities and powers of these new tools in the hands of creative thinkers appear limitless. In this series, we’re showcasing cutting-edge work and looking at what lies ahead.
Friday, September 1, 2017 • 7:30 p.m.
From fabricated fantasy worlds to frivolous fun, everyone is welcome to this gallery-wide celebration of cardboard cinema.
Saturday, August 12, 2017 • Noon–4:00 p.m.
In this hands-on workshop, learn how to create your own stop-motion collage animation using a range of found images and materials that are assembled in creative ways to become entirely new—and often unexpected—moving compositions.
Saturday, August 5, 2017 • 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.
Join us for a shorts program showcasing diverse papers that are manipulated through puppetry, abstraction, and creative reuse.
Thursday, July 20, 2017 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Tonight, Ernie Gehr joins us to present a screening of new works—four moving image landscape considerations. An essential filmmaker of the avant-garde, Gehr has worked continuously for over 50 years, crafting hypnotic and perception-shifting studies of the familiar.