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Fri Nov 22, 7:30 p.m.
Night Raiders (2021)
Niska and her daughter Waseese have taken refuge in the woods to escape a military-controlled state that regulates the lives of children. When Niska encounters a group of Cree who have been organizing raids to save captured children, she must weigh the decision to protect only her daughter or fight on behalf of everyone’s families. Through allegory, Night Raiders’ speculative future unpacks a traumatic past experienced by Indigenous people and the children who survived North America’s residential school era. Preceded by the short film Pumzi (2009).
In person: Q&A with director Danis Goulet moderated by UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Professor Kathleen McHugh.
Co-presented by UCLA Cinema & Media Studies.
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Sat Nov 23, 7 p.m.
Off-site: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
New restoration! Sergei Parajanov’s global breakthrough — a film that galvanized a new generation of filmmakers not only in Ukraine but throughout the Eastern Bloc — remains a potent blend of bravura filmmaking and spellbinding folklore. Parajanov adapts a novel about a Romeo and Juliet tragedy among the Hutsul people of western Ukraine.
This event is presented by the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre.
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Sat Nov 23, 7:30 p.m.
Sanctus and Other Shorts by David Lebrun
In a career that spans six decades and over 100 films, UCLA alumnus David Lebrun has crafted a multidisciplinary film practice encompassing animation, documentary and experimental techniques to explore different ways of seeing and being in the world. The Archive is honored to host Lebrun for a weekend of screenings that includes the premiere of the Academy Film Archive’s new restoration of Sanctus (1966).
In person: Q&A with director David Lebrun.
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Sun Nov 24, 3 p.m.
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision (2004)
An exploration of the intersection of science and art, Proteus centers on the fascinating life and career of 19th century German naturalist Ernst Haeckel and his obsession with radiolarians, a species of microscopic marine protozoa. Filmmaker David Lebrun delivers heady doses of philosophy, history, aesthetics, religion and evolutionary biology made all the more potent by his dazzling presentation of Haeckel’s scientific drawings.
In person: Q&A with director David Lebrun.
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Sun Nov 24, 7 p.m.
Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past (2018–2024)
Beginning with high-resolution images of artifacts, art objects and architectural details from different eras and photographed at various sites around the world, David Lebrun animates the changes in their forms across millennia. The results are an awe-inspiring tour of human ingenuity, imagination, belief and craft from the Paleolithic period through the Middle Ages, and from Mesoamerica to Europe, the Middle East and Indian Asia.
In person: Q&A with director David Lebrun.
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Wed Dec 4, 7 p.m.
Off-site: The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Sergei Parajanov envisions the life of 18th century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova from childhood to death through impeccably composed tableaus, trance-like pantomime and transportive music.
This event has sold out.
Presented by the American Cinematheque at the Los Feliz 3.
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Fri Dec 6, 7:30 p.m.
The Tree House (2019)
In the year 2045, a man arrives on Mars. He wants to make a film, but not about Mars, where his memories are empty. He contacts his father on Earth and asks about life in Vietnam in the past. As his father describes his memories, we cruise around the Vietnamese mountains and meet some of the people who inhabit them.
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Sat Dec 7, 7:30 p.m.
Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
New restoration! Made by Sergei Parajanov’s close friend Mikhail Vartanov, this touching tribute from one persecuted artist to another features behind-the-scenes footage of Parajanov shooting The Color of Pomegranates, the filmmaker’s prison art as well as a tour of his Tbilisi home.
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Sun Dec 8, 7 p.m.
Andriesh (1954)
The First Lad (1958)
A young shepherd meets a knight and receives a magic flute. But when a nefarious sorcerer hears the instrument’s gleeful tones, he wreaks havoc upon the boy’s village. Followed by Sergei Parajanov’s spirited second feature, in which a love triangle forms on a collective farm between a mechanic, a Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) secretary and a soldier.
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Wed Dec 11, 7 p.m.
Off-site: The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985) / Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (1985)
Adapting a formative Georgian folktale about the repeated attempts to build a redoubt in the country’s hilly Shida Kartli region, Sergei Parajanov’s film is a sumptuously textured opus. Followed by Parajanov’s meditation on self-taught Georgian folk painter Niko Pirosmani.
Presented by the American Cinematheque at the Los Feliz 3.
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Fri Dec 13, 7:30 p.m.
Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961) + short films
The paths of a young Ukrainian couple tragically diverge due to the outbreak of WWII. A singer becomes a nurse while her beau ends up a fugitive POW. This epic wartime melodrama was Sergei Parajanov’s most ambitious film to date, largely told in flashbacks. Plus two short films.
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Sat Dec 14, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening With Larissa Sansour
Born in Palestine and based in London, interdisciplinary artist Larissa Sansour creates works that examine the collective memory and trauma of the Palestinian people through allegorical and experimental sci-fi films, working closely with her partner, Danish filmmaker and writer Søren Lind. A series of short films will be followed by the U.S. premiere of Familiar Phantoms (2023).
In person: Q&As with filmmaker Larissa Sansour (before and after Familiar Phantoms), moderated by UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega.
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From Our Friends
Wed Nov 20, 7:30 p.m.
Hammer Museum presents:
Flux, Fall 2024
The Flux screening series brings the creative community together to celebrate outstanding short films and music videos from around the globe, with wildly inventive filmmaker presentations and performances.
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Archive programs are free through June 2025, made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor. | | | | |
