Fall 2017

Friday, August 18
Premier screening and talk back Ace, Director Caden Rodems-Boyd
(USA, 2017) 102 min.
(Office of LGBTQ Resources and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 9
Mulholland Dr., Director David Lynch
(USA, 2001) 147 min.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 13
Spaced Out: Outer Space and Altered States Film Colloquium Series
Gravity, Director Alfonso Cuarón
(USA, 2013) 91 min. 35 mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; History of Art; School of Art; European Studies Council; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, September 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Volver, Director Pedro Almodovar
(Spain, 2006) 121 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 20
Spaced Out: Outer Space and Altered States Film Colloquium Series
Inception, Director Christopher Nolan
(USA, 2010) 148 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; History of Art; School of Art; European Studies Council; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 23
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
Strike, Director Sergei Eisenstein
(Soviet Union, 1924) 97 min.
Introduced by John MacKay
With live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 1
Premiere Screening!
Faces Places, Directors Agnès Varda and JR
(France, 2017) 89 min.
Introduced by Dudley Andrew
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies Program, French Film Club, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 4
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
October, Directors Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov
(Soviet Union, 1928) 101 min. 16mm.
Introduced by John MacKay
With live music by silent film pianist Peter Krasinski
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, October 6
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Celebrating 50 Years of the Black Student Alliance at Yale Black at Yale; A Film Diary, Director Warrington Hudlin ‘74
(USA, 1974) 55 min. 16mm.
Followed by a discussion with the director
(Black Student Alliance at Yale, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 8
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control, Director Errol Morris
(USA, 1997) 80 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 11
Spaced Out: Outer Space and Altered States Film Colloquium Series
Alien, Director Ridley Scott
(USA, 1979) 117 min. 35mm, Director’s Cut print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive (Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; History of Art; School of Art; European Studies Council; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, October 23
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan, Directors Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger
(USA, 2017) 90 min.
Introduced by Emily Coates and followed by a Q&A with Wendy Whelan
(Dance Studies Curriculum/Theater Studies, Public Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Trumbull College, and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 25
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film Storm over Asia, Director Vsevolod Pudovkin
(Soviet Union, 1928) 74 min. 16mm.
Introduced by John MacKay
With live music by silent film pianist Donald Sosin
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 26
Spaced Out: Outer Space and Altered States Film Colloquium Series
Slaughterhouse-Five, Director George Roy Hill
(USA, 1972) 104 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; History of Art; School of Art; European Studies Council; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 29
100 Years: Silenced Voices - Music of Soviet Russia
Dmitri Shostakovich: “Moderato” (1930s), Mark Prihodko cello and Liliya Ugay piano Alexander Tcherepnin: Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 29 (1924), Mark Prihodko cello and Liliya Ugay piano
Mieczsław Weinberg: First Book of Jewish Songs, Op. 13 (1943), Natalia Rubis soprano and Liliya Ugay piano
Intermission
Nikolai Roslavetz: Viola Sonata No. 1 (1926), Josip Kvetek viola and Agata Sorotokin piano
Mieczsław Weinberg: Second Book of Jewish Songs, Op. 17 (1944), Paul Berry tenor and Agata Sorotokin piano
Valentin Silvestrov: Postlude No. 1 D-S-C-H (1981), Natalia Rubis soprano, Manaka Matsumoto violin, Eric Adamshick cello and Liliya Ugay piano(Yale College Dean’s Discretionary Fund, Yale School of Music, and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 1
Spaced Out: Outer Space and Altered States Film Colloquium Series
Aelita, Director Yakov Protanzonaov
(Soviet Union, 1924) 111 min.
With live musical accompaniment by world-famous silent film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton, with special guest, the renowned violinist and composer Alicia Svigals
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; History of Art; School of Art; European Studies Council; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, November 2
Award-winning Israeli Filmmakers The Mute’s House, Director Tamar Kay
(Israel, 2017) 32 min.
Anna, Director Or Sinai (Israel, 2016) 24 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the directors
(Film and Media Studies; Modern Hebrew Program in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Peace, Dialogue, and Leadership Initiative; Slifka Center for Jewish Life; Yale Friends of Israel, with the support of the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist Program; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, November 3
Entanglements with Nature: Environmental Humanities in Asia
Panelists: Prasenjit Duara (Duke University), Kathleen Morrison (University of Pennsylvania), Karen Thornber (Harvard University)
Moderator: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
(Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Asia Councils at the MacMillan Center, InterAsian Connections Program, Environmental Humanities Initiative, and Whitney Humanities Center)
3 pm, Room 208

Saturday, November 4
In War for Love, Director Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif)
(Italy, 2016) 99 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director.
(Italian Department and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 8
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, Director Esfir Shub
(Soviet Union, 1927) 90 min. 16mm.
Introduced by Anastasia Kostina
With live music by silent film pianist Donald Sosin
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, November 11
Yi Yi, Director Edward Yang
(Taiwan, 2000) 173 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, November 12
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Un Prophete, Director Jacques Audiard (France, 2009) 155min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 15–Sunday, November 19
Latino & Iberian Film Festival “Breaking Borders Through Film” 2 - 4 pm Short Films
Opening Night Film: Tamara, Director Elia Schneider (Venezuela, Uruguay, Peru; 2016) 110 min.
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 29
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film Fragment of an Empire, Director Fridrikh Ermler
(Soviet Union, 1929) 96 min. 16mm.
Introduced by Ana Berkinskikh
With live music by silent film pianist Donald Sosin
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, December 1
Free in Deed, Director Jake Mahaffy
(USA, 2015) 100 min.
Followed by a Q&A with producer Mike Ryan and Katie Lofton
(Religious Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, December 3
Blueprint, Director Daryl Wein
(USA, 2017) 76 min.
Post screening discussion with Jerod Haynes (actor, producer), Rizvana Bradley (Film & Media Studies and African American Studies), and A.K. Payne (English and African American Studies) in conjunction with the performance of Native Son at the Yale Repertory Theatre
(African American Studies, Film & Media Studies, Theater Studies, Yale Repertory Theater, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund of Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, December 4
Queens of Syria, Director Yasmin Fedda
(Jordan, UAE, UK; 2014) 70 min.
Followed by a discussion with Paul Eberwine (Classics)
(Classics, Theater Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
In conjunction with the exhibit “Critical Refuge: Sculptures by Mohamad Hafez” in the Gallery at the Whitney.

Friday, December 8
No Man’s Land Film Festival
(Yale Outdoors, REI, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, AuditoriuM

Saturday, December 9
Fantastic Planet, Director René Laloux
(France, 1973) 72 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, December 10
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Amistad, Director Steven Spielberg
(USA, 1997) 155 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium