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In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
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On a quest to uncover Leonard Bernstein’s ‘universal language of music’, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma travels the old ‘Silk Road’ with virtuoso musicians from diverse instrumental traditions to collaborate on rousing new musical explorations.
Please join CCA for our ongoing Community Reading Series in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery. This event features NM state poet laureate Lauren Camp, prose writers Jamie Figueroa and Renata Golden and poet Natachee Momaday Gray. Readings are curated by former Santa Fe poet laureate Elizabeth Jacobson.
CCA's monthly Closer Looks series, May 2024. Selected by Paul Barnes. "Bruce Springsteen wrote a song called “Cautious Man”. It contains a line inspired by The Night of the Hunter, “"On his right hand Billy'd tattooed the word "love” and on his left hand was the word "fear” And in which hand he held his fate was never clear” In the film there’s a famous scene in which Robert Mitchum as an enigmatic Reverend says to a little boy, "Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand?” The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic— featuring the contributions of the great silent actress Lillian Gish and renowned writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. Charles Laughton showed here that he had an original eye, and a taste for material that stretched the conventions of the movies. It is risky to combine horror and humor, and foolhardy to approach them through expressionism. For his first film, Laughton made a film like no other before or since, and with such confidence it seemed to draw on a lifetime of experience." -Paul Barnes A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
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CCA's monthly Closer Looks series, April 2024. Presented with an introduction by CCA Cinema Director Justin Clifford Rhody and a post-screening panel discussion by Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Abigail Smith, and Luna Galassini. "With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins." -Criterion Wanda was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation. About the panelists: Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator born, raised, and currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work explores identity, history, Indigenous Futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. She is a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, and has received support for her work from the Sundance Institute, Mike Kelley Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Cousin Collective and more. She has exhibited her work in venues and festivals around the world. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, and a dual MFA in Film & Video and Photography & Media from CalArts. Abigail Smith is a collage artist, field recordist, and experimental filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited internationally at festivals including IndieLisboa, Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Analogica, and Other Cinema. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from Indiana university and works at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Smith is a co-founder of No Name Cinema and performs flute and percussion in free-improv and expanded cinema ensembles. Luna Galassini is a musician and filmmaker. Her performances and videos are informed by somatic practices, folk and rural histories, and the local ecology of New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited at No Name Cinema, Currents 826, REDCAT, The Box Gallery Los Angeles, and Visual Studies Workshop. She co-organizes the experimental concert series Santa Fe Noise Ordinance and lives in the rural village of Truchas.
This vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit—the mushroom—begins 3.5 billion years ago, with fungi creating the soil that supports life, its mycelial networks connecting vast systems across the planet. Through the eyes of mycologists and scientists including Paul Stamets, Michael Pollen and Andrew Weil, we learn about the power, beauty, and complexity of the fungi kingdom, recognizing that fungi offer food, medicine, and expanding consciousness, bioremediation, neurogenesis, and treating end-of-life anxiety. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. (U.S., 2018, 90m)
Thursdays: May 16, May 23, May 30, June 6 4:30-6:30p, In-person at CCA Poet Elizabeth Jacobson returns to CCA with her popular workshop series Intimate Immersion. During this four-week virtual intensive participants will focus on generating new poems, critiquing each other’s work, revising their poems, and looking at elements of craft. Each meeting, participants are invited to bring a new poem (with copies for everyone) for workshop discussion. Since this is the first look, the process creates a deep, concentrated attention distinctive from preparing critique notes ahead of time. Additionally, contemporary poems are provided as a catalyst for the following week's writing prompt. This is an intimate, focused immersion to reinforce the writing practice and foster the evolution of new poems. Tuition (for all four in-person sessions): $250 Please register early as class size is limited to 8 participants. We will meet in CCA’s conference room, which is in the same building as the cinema. About Elizabeth Jacobson: Elizabeth was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, is forthcoming from Free Verse Editions, 2025. Her previous book, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air won the New Measure Poetry Prize (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. Her other books include Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books), two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone, and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away, Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021), which she co-edited. Elizabeth is a Reviews Editor for the on-line literary journal Terrain.org, and she is co-founding director of Poetry Pollinators, an eco-poetry public art initiative supporting native solitary bees. Her community projects have received eight consecutive grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.
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Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show ‘Night Owls’ that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. However, ratings for the show have plummeted since the tragic death of Jack’s beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other- unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.
On March 28th, 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away after his struggle against cancer. In the years leading up to his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform live. Single concerts, not to mention sprawling global tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film, featuring just him and his piano.
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Debut writer-director Felipe Gálvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with THE SETTLERS, a searing and indelible take on the Western. Blending historical specificity with vivid visual style, this Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize winner creates a singular immersive vision, arresting in both content and form. At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the behest of a wealthy landowner, tasked with securing his vast state-appointed property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman Segundo, who comes to realize, amidst rising tensions within the group, their true mission is to murderously “remove” the indigenous population. Set against stunning mountain landscapes, Chile’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 96th Academy Awards® is a visceral reckoning with national myth and the attendant violence. Painterly yet piercing, this acclaimed frontier epic turns a bold eye to the past, daring to reimagine its depiction in the present and for the future.