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Beyond Our Senses - Bank Swallows explores the intersection between life and perceptions. The first installment tells the story of how thousands of Bank Swallows migrate to the Lake Michigan bluffs each spring to build colonies, mate, and raise their young. Guided by extraordinary perceptions like tetrachromatic vision, magnetic senses, and aerial mastery, they navigate predators, rivals, and the relentless demands of survival in a hidden world beyond human perception.

Screening Details

Event: Apple Harvest Festival at Retzer Nature Center, part of the Waukesha County Parks System


Venue: Horwitz-DeRemer Planetarium, owned and operated by the School District of Waukesha and housed at Retzer


Date & Time: Saturday, September 20, 2025. Screenings every 30 minutes from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM.


Leni Riefenstahl, known to history as Hitler’s favorite filmmaker, has long enjoyed a remarkable degree of approval in Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino has expressed admiration for her cinematic gifts, and Francis Ford Coppola reportedly dined with her at the first Telluride Film Festival in 1974 where both directors were honored. A 2007 New Yorker magazine piece reported, “George Lucas praised her modernity and acknowledged the indebtedness of Star Wars to [Riefenstahl’s] Triumph of the Will.”

Such flattery reflects Riefenstahl’s success after World War II in scrubbing her reputation of complicity with the Nazi regime and a widespread buy-in to her carefully crafted narrative: that she was an apolitical artist who merely took assignments from Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. That fantasy is exploded in the documentary Riefenstahl, directed by German filmmaker Andres Veiel. It’s now playing in U.S. theaters through Kino Lorber and will get a campaign for Oscar consideration.