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Events for Wednesday, September 16, 2020
ONLINE—Represent
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. In the vein of last year’s Knock Down the House, documentarian Hillary Bachelder follows three women running for local and state offices in 2017 and 2018. Through their campaigns and the aftermath, these women struggle with being heard, their own past, and the responsibilities of representative government.
Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today
From photography’s beginnings, clouds had been central to aesthetic and technological debates in photographic circles. Moreover, they featured in discussions about the nature of the medium itself.
James Welling: Choreograph
James Welling’s recent body of work integrates several strands of his artistic exploration over the past forty years.
ONLINE—The August Virgin
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Instead of heading out on her holidays, Eva decides to stay in Madrid for the beginning of August. She looks after a flat for a friend who is going out of town. Director Jonas Trueba re-teams with actress Itsaso Arana in a story about finding yourself past a time when you should already know who you are.
ONLINE—Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Virual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe.
ONLINE—Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s greatest songwriter, grew up only four hours from Rochester, in Orillia, Ontario. Moving back and forth through time, the film details his career, his battle with substance abuse, and his success with the songs “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” and “Carefree Highway.”
ONLINE—Aviva
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. “It’s not what a movie is about it, it’s how it is about it.” This quote from Roger Ebert was never more true than in this surprising romance.
ONLINE—My Prince Edward
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. As Fong redefines her best life and writer-director Norris Wong reclaims her home city's narrative from outsiders in this debut, their courage sparks thrills and will make you wholeheartedly cheer for a woman’s independence and a new age in Hong Kong cinema.
ONLINE—Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Governor of Georgia and into his presidency, Jimmy Carter made outdoor musical gatherings a mainstay, highlighting some of the best music the country had to offer. Testimonials from Bono, Bob Dylan, Nile Rogers, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, and Trisha Yearwood, alongside vintage performances from Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn, and Ray Charles underscore Carter’s commitment to American music.