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Opening Night Film with Blake Williams in person. Followed by reception

Dir. Blake Williams. Canada. 2017, 63 mins. 3-D DCP. As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and tested. Blake Williams’s experimental 3-D sci-fi film immerses us in the aftermath of the Galveston disaster, combining archival material with various optical manipulations and imagist surfaces to fashion a haunting treatise on technology, cinema, and the medium’s future. A Grasshopper Film release. U.S. premiere.

Preceded by 1207 (Subtitled audio presentation by Eleanor McDowall and Radio Atlas, from a radio piece produced by Matthias Hellemans. Belgium. 2017, 2 mins.); No Attempt Was Made to Reattach (Dir. Joe Callander. U.S.A. 2016, 2 mins) A man looks back at an ill-fated day at work; and The Argument (with annotations) (Dir. Daniel Cockburn. Canada/UK. 2017, 20 mins), a free-associative interrogation and exemplification of metaphors and their meanings.

Tickets: $20 ($15 for members at the Standard through MoMI Kids Premium levels/free for members at the Silver Screen level and above). ). Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)