Monday | March 15, 2004 9:00 pm

Tuesday | March 16, 2004 9:00 pm

Epidemic

Screening on Film

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Udo Kier.
Denmark, 1988, 35mm, black & white, 106 min.
Danish and English with English subtitles.

After failing to complete a screenplay titled “The Cop and The Whore” for their producer, a director and screenwriter (portrayed by von Trier and his real-life screenwriter, Niels Vørsel) instead craft a script about a fatal illness which they hope will satisfy their backers. In a perverse twist of life imitating art, a mysterious plague approaches just as the writers develop their treatment. Rather than exploit the suspenseful aspects of the plot, the director thumbs his nose at expected horror-movie convention and favors instead a series of compelling yet static monologues, including a bizarre war story from von Trier regular Udo Kier.

March 1 – 31, 2004

From Dogme to Dogville.
The Films of Lars von Trier

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

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 mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada