Tuesday | November 29, 2005 7:00 pm

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Live piano accompaniment by Martin Marks
Screening on Film

Directed by Yakov Protazanov.
USSR, 1924, 35mm, black & white, silent, 82 min.
Russian language version.

An example of early Soviet science fiction, this film is an eccentric comedy based on Alexei Tolstoy's story about an inventor who shoots his wife and flees to Mars. The futurist design gracing this film decisively influenced many subsequent designers and illustrators of science fiction stories, especially the design of Mongo in Flash Gordon.

September 27 – December 13, 2005

Film Architectures

September 14–November 30, 2004

Film Architectures

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy