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

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 16–23

Hamaguchi Ryusuke, The World as Stage

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

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 4

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

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection