Join Jesse Amesmith for a yoga class in the museum.

Native American Cinematic Heritage As important to the history of independent filmmaking as to Indigenous cinematic voices, when first released, this film was promoted as the first feature written, directed, produced, and acted by Native Americans.

Rochester Premiere Tsai Ming-liang’s cinema of loneliness and isolation (Rebels of the Neon God, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) was identified by the French miniseries 2000 Seen by…, which told stories of the approaching millennium from ten different directors in ten different countries.

Labor Film Series For four days in late 1999, ministers of 135 countries convened in Seattle Washington for multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization. Across those same four days, more than 40,000 people converged on the downtown site in an effort to protest the WTO and its impacts on the environment, human rights, and labor in what became the largest protests against economic globalization the U.S. had ever seen.

Louis Chavez, assistant curator, will lead a tour of the Collection Gallery to discuss the photographs on view in Selections from the Collection. Chavez will share information about how the works selected for this exhibition are connected, whether that be through familial legacies or creative mentorship.

Filmi Fest 2000 Based on the life of the ancient warrior king, Shah Rukh Khan teams with Kareena Kapoor for the first time in this historical action epic.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Selected as the best Canadian film of all time by critics and filmmakers in 2015, this adventure epic adapts an Inuit legend to the big screen, earning the Camera d’Or at Cannes for the best first feature film.

Silent Tuesdays Director Herbert Brenon and star Betty Bronson reunite after Peter Pan for another adaptation of a J.M. Barrie play. Jane (Bronson) is a house slave who dreams of a Prince Charming and is nicknamed Cinderella by an artist whose studio she cleans because she always talks of the wonderful things that will one day befall her.

Special Program While many films require a landscape to set the scene, most simply leave it at that, as the drama plays out in front of the backdrop. It is the rare film that considers the landscape itself, urban or rural, and how the camera lens mediates being in that environment.

Anomaly Film Festival The inspiration for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this classic early 80s swordplay fantasy epic is what started it all. During a Chinese civil war in the 1740s, forces of good and evil face off in the Zu Mountains and, with no short supply of magic, battle through the air and across mountains.