FILM@UC
archive | fall 2019
All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.
SEPTEMBER 5
You Go To My Head
[2017, France, dir. Dimitri de Clercq, 116 mins.]Upon discovering an unconscious woman in the desert who awakens suffering from post-traumatic amnesia, a reclusive architect claims to be her husband and concocts for them the life he’s always wanted only to face the threat of losing it all as she slowly regains fragments of her real past.
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SEPTEMBER 12
What Is Democracy?
[2018, Canada, dir. Astra Taylor, 107 mins.]Insights from celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers are interwoven into a provocative and idiosyncratic documentary imploring us to reexamine democracy, which we’ve come to take for granted as it faces unprecedented crises.
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SEPTEMBER 19
Eldorado
[2018, Switzerland, dir. Markus Imhoof, 92 mins.]A moving documentary in which filmmaker Markus Imhoof looks at the current refugee crisis in Europe through the lens of his own childhood relationship with Giovanna, a young Italian girl whom his family took in as a refugee in the aftermath of World War II but who was ultimately sent back to Italy.
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SEPTEMBER 26
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
[2018, USA, dir. RaMell Ross, 76 mins.]This intimate and poetic documentary about the African American experience bears witness to five years in the lives of two young men in rural Hale County, Alabama, one of whom pursues a college degree while the other experiences fatherhood.
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OCTOBER 3
Stupid Young Heart
[2018, Finland, dir. Selma Vilhunen 102 mins.]An unlikely hook-up at a party between Lenni, a timid and scrawny teenage skateboard punk, and his long-time crush Kiira, the pretty, popular captain of the high school dance team, leads to an unplanned pregnancy and her decision to keep the baby becomes further complicated as he increasingly falls under the influence of a dangerous neo-Nazis group.
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OCTOBER 10
Under The Silver Lake
[2019, USA, dir. David Robert Mitchell, 140 mins.]An encounter with a mysterious woman in his Los Angeles apartment’s swimming pool and her subsequent disappearance drives a man into a world of scandal, murder, secret codes, and subliminal messages in this trippy neo-noir.
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OCTOBER 17
Long Day's Journey Into Night
[2019, China, dir. Bi Gan, 140 mins.]A dreamlike and fragmented puzzle of a neo-noir in which a drifter returns to his hometown after many years only to imagine an impossible reunion with a girl he may have once loved but barely knew.
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OCTOBER 24
Starfish
[2018, USA, dir. A.T. White, 99 mins.]Aubrey, a young woman feeling as if the world has come to an end following the death of her friend, suddenly finds herself searching all over town for the mix-tapes left by her late friend and which may hold the secret to saving the world from an extraterrestrial invasion in this eerie sci-fi hybrid about grief, loss, Lovecraftian monsters, and the healing power of music.
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