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Events for Saturday, August 2, 2025
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Three City Symphonies by László Moholy-Nagy
7Crest Financial Partners Hall
This trio of short films by Hungarian-born László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) were made between 1926 and 1932 and show the artist’s visionary approach to portraying life in urban spaces. An influential teacher at the revolutionary Bauhaus school of art in Germany, Moholy-Nagy created significant bodies of work in design, painting, photography, sculpture, and filmmaking.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
Main Galleries
Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum explores the many ways in which photographic objects have come to shape our everyday lives. The exhibition encompasses broad cultural histories and image-making practices.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo
Project Gallery
Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo bridges the performative and observational practices of Zig Jackson, a photographer whose work is concerned with the everyday experience of Native American life and culture, with a focus on community, sovereignty, and respect for the land.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent)
Potter Peristyle
Working with photographic media and their histories, Liz Deschenes reconfigures the relationships among viewer, image, support, apparatus, and architecture, often inverting their respective positions.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Seeing & Being Seen: LGBTQ+ Visions of Rochester
Gallery Obscura
Seeing & Being Seen celebrates the diverse, intersectional identities and experiences within the greater Rochester LGBTQ+ community and spotlights both our shared and unique Queer and Trans existence, from celebration to struggle.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
In this iteration of Selections from the Collection, a combination of new acquisitions, recent rediscoveries, and foundational objects offer insights into the history of photography.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, 2 p.m.
Matinee: State and Main (35mm)
Dryden Theatre
Philm Fest: The Comedies | From Rochester With Love | Saturday Matinees! Philip Seymour Hoffman turns in a rare romantic lead role as Joseph Turner White, the afflicted writer called in to doctor the script and help the floundering production.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
The Big Lebowski (35mm)
Dryden Theatre
Philm Fest: The Comedies | From Rochester With Love Hoffman’s role as Lebowski’s floundering personal secretary reaffirmed his place as a unique actor capable of holding the screen with anyone.