Special Screenings
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994)
Chantal Akerman · 60m · DCP
The film follows the travails of Michèle, the titular "young girl," as she roams the streets of Brussels. Melancholic and a bit rebellious, she meets draft dodger Paul at the cinema and forms a clumsy connection, even as it becomes clear her true loyalties may lie elsewhere. Akerman’s quasi-autobiographical drama captures the uncertainties of youth as characters eagerly anticipate the future amidst political turbulence in 1968.
Courtesy CINEMATEK / Fondation Chantal Akerman.
Saturday, January 31 4:00 PM
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Aditya Chopra · 190m · DCP
When Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) meet during a trip across Europe, their romance is as improbable as it is, perhaps, inevitable. The reserved and shy Simran contrasts sharply with Raj’s brash personality — plus, she’s already been engaged to the son of a family friend. However, upon parting, Raj resolves to steal the bride at her own wedding — not through eloping, but through a scheme to win over her entire family.
Co-sponsored by SASA.
Saturday, February 2 6:00 PM
Hail Mary (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard · 79m · DCP
Godard transposes the biblical annunciation to the 1980s in one of his most controversial films, as French teenager Mary navigates high school and her relationship with cab-driver boyfriend Joseph after her sudden pregnancy.
Preceded by Anne-Marie Miéville’s The Book of Mary on February 22.
Tuesday, February 17 9:30 PM · Sunday, February 22 1:00 PM
Untime (annihilate this week) (2026)
Kioto Aoki & Cameron Worden · ~45m · 35mm slides
A multi-image work made for several 35mm slide projectors with no shutter or intermittent, operated in real time and accompanied by live music, Untime attempts to upend the rigid linearity of cinematic time, a sideways progression of concurrent images splayed across multiple slide carousels, blipping ad infinitum.
This program will additionally include two short 35mm films made by Cameron Worden: Today (in a haze) and Digital Devil Saga.
Sunday, February 22 7:00 PM
Mansfield K. / Un vent léger dans le feuillage / Study for Three Streams / bleared eyes of blue glass / tendril and spray / Wasserspiel I / Ausblicke I + II / Klinik (1988 / 1994 / 2024 / 2023 / 2023 / 1997 / 1990 / 2001)
Martine Rousset / Martine Rousset / Park Kyujae / Park Kyujae / Park Kyujae / Milena Gierke / Milena Gierke / Milena Gierke · 20m / 3m / 5m / 9m / 2m / 3m / 3m / 6m · 16mm / 16mm / 16mm / rest digital
A collection of films from French filmmaker Martine Rousset, Korean filmmaker Park Kyujae, and German filmmaker Milena Gierke, concerning images, text, light, water, sky, land, self, and intimate perception.
Sunday, March 1 8:15 PM
Glistening Seagull / The Goblin Play (2023 / 2025)
Chae Yu · 11m / 47m · DCP
Wedged between impossible tenses, Chicago-based Korean filmmaker Chae Yu gathers fragments without refining them, sustaining the tension between making film and being within it. Like the training sequences in her new work, she follows force rather than resisting it, letting roles collapse and bodies tremble. Her films propose that to stop dreaming is the real loss, inviting encounters with liberation and constraint, held within single frames.
Glistening Seagull / 2023 / 4:3 / color / stereo / 11min
You moved as if shimmering and rippling water, and I danced above like a seagull.
The Goblin Play / 2025 / 4:3 / color & bw / 5.1 surround / 47min
A director blames the failed shoot on personal feelings toward their actor. The actor auditions for a role in a shamanic tale about a goblin that’s entered a woman’s body. The story is told twice, solely from one person’s point of view, but differently.
