Thursday | June 10, 1999 7:00 pm

Faust

Screening on Film

Directed by Jan Svankmajer.
With Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla.
Czech Republic/UK, 1994, 35mm, color, 97 min.

Svankmajer’s Faust is an inquisitive Everyman who, exiting a Prague metro, is handed a map which leads him to his Mephistopheles in an abandoned theater. Brimming with seductions of the supernatural, shape-changing demons, puppet versions of characters from Goethe, leading Faust, attracted by satanic promises, toward his doom.

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue