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(2001) in 35mm Made in Chicago: Princess Cyd (2017) Crime + Punishment (2017) w/ director Stephen Maing in person Birthright: A War Story (2017) w/ director Civia Tamarkin Ilo Ilo (2013) Brûle la mer (Burn the Sea, 2015) in 35mm Young Soul Rebels (1991) in 35mm Wings of Desire (1987) Migrating Berlin: Multinational Perspectives on Germany’s Years of Reunification Looking for Langston (1989) and The Attendant (1993) City of Lost Souls (1983) Dirty Looks LA: Eight Years On Our Century (1983) and State of Weightlessness (1994) For All Mankind (1989) Wanderers of the Desert (1984) Ishtar (1987) in 35mm Yeelen (1987) Waiting for Happiness (2002) Spell Reel (2017) The Waldheim Waltz (2018) Naila and the Uprising (2017) The Image You Missed (2018) Auto-Erotic: Female Sexuality in the First Person ...Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor Losing Ground (1982) Barbara Hammer: Mediated Sensuality Barbara Hammer: Declarations of Identity 9 to 5 (1980) A Bread Factory (2018) The Area (2018) Rubber Coated Steel (2016) and Watching the Detectives (2017) Branco Sai, Preto Fica (White Out, Black In, 2014) NU DOCS Program 1: RETROSPECTIVES (2019) NU Docs Program 2: TEMPORALITIES (2019) NU DOCS Program 3: STRUCTURES (2019) Life Without Death (2000) The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) La Politique des Autres: Short Films by Agnès Varda Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 5 Félicité (2017) Ism, Ism, Ism: Dialogues with Che My First Film (2019) The Elephant Man (1980) Ism, Ism, Ism: Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster Sisters in Cinema: An Evening with Yvonne Welbon Nostalgia for the Light (2010) Ism, Ism, Ism: Countercultures and Undergrounds One Way or Another (1974/1977) The Red Light Bandit (1968) Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Ism, Ism Ism: Recycled Cinema Ism, Ism, Ism: Estrellas de Ayer: Latin Camp 2019 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) The Hottest August (2019) Whose Streets? (2017) Amazements: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby Andy Warhol's The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) When the Earth Trembled, or The Strength of Love (1913) 2017 Expand 2017 Submenu History and Memory & Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice “The Gay Left”: Homosexuality in the Era of Late Socialism Japanese Experimental Cinema—Between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975 Dreams Are Colder Than Death The Cinema Of Chantal Akerman: Time, Borders, Politics Los Muertos The Loving Story Ministry of Light: Experimental State-Sponsored Films from India, 1968-1975 2017 NU Student Film Festival NU DOCS Cameraperson with director Kirsten Johnson If You Remember, I'll Remember Songs of Innocence and Experience—Visionary Cinema in the 1960s & 70s New Docs - Fall Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2017 2020 Expand 2020 Submenu Families in Transition A Night with the Shabistan Film Archive Interview (1971) Brick and Mirror (1965) The Runaway (1958) Pyaasa (Thirst) (1957) Badnam Basti (Alley of Ill Repute) (1971) Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett) (2017) with sound designer Ernst Karel Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) with sound designer Tom Myers and writer/producer Bobette Buster Compensation (1999) Twice as Nice (1989) with filmmaker Jessie Maple Three Films by Forugh Farrokhzad and Ebrahim Golestan Gelin (The Bride) (1973) Present.Perfect (2019) with filmmaker Shengze Zhu A Moon For My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari About the Block Expand About the Block Submenu Support the Block Staff Facility Board of Advisors Donors Foundation Support Annual Reports Strategic Plan Design Assets Opportunities Land Acknowledgement Artist Projects Expand Artist Projects Submenu Jen Bervin (2018) Dario Robleto (2018-current) Kader Attia (2017) Marie Watt (2017) Walter Kitundu (2016) News Expand News Submenu Press Coverage Expand Press Coverage Submenu Past Press Coverage Newsletter Press Kits Stories from The Block Teaching & Learning Expand Teaching & Learning Submenu Faculty Resources Graduate Fellows Student Docents Block Student Advisory Board Internships K-12 Resources Community Partnerships Eloise W. Martin Study Center Publications Expand Publications Submenu Portrait of a Child Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time Up Is Down William Blake and the Age of Aquarius Geof Oppenheimer Charlotte Moorman Collecting Paradise Support The Block Search Search this site Search Visit Events Exhibitions Collections Cinema Click to open search menu Search this site Search Scroll to main content Home Page Current Exhibitions This Winter The Block celebrates Global Modernisms January 21-April 5, 2020 Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection “Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection” surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 1970s. Details January 21 - April 5, 2020 Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection January 21-April 19, 2020 Terence Gower: Ciudad Moderna Working in video, sculpture, drawing and photography, New York-based artist Terence Gower (b. British Colombia, 1965) investigates the material and intellectual histories of postwar positivism in art and architecture. The contemporary built environments of 1960s Mexico are the focus of his 2004 video, Ciudad Moderna. Details January 21 - April 19, 2020 Terence Gower: Ciudad Moderna See All Exhibitions Museum Programs Cinema Morning Will Come: Modernity in Indian Cinema This curated series of five screenings, presented during the Winter 2020 season, exemplifies the Block Museum’s global approach to the arts by shining a light on a national cinema largely underrepresented in American film programming. MORE PROGRAMS “The Block Museum is dedicated to global perspectives. This winter, we are proud to be showcasing modern art from Iran, India, and Turkey. We remain committed to the idea that art and culture are essential to a collective world heritage and shared human experience. For our campus community and the many publics we serve, The Block is a place for examining assumptions, reframing questions, and bridging perspectives. We believe deeply in the capacity of art encounters to catalyze thinking about what is at stake for us in our lives. We invite all of our visitors to join us in sharing art experiences as springboards for thinking critically about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going.” – Lisa Corrin, The Block Museum Ellen Philips Katz Director News from The Block Museum “Modernisms" offers new view of glo...