Friday | July 30, 1999 7:00 pm

Saturday | July 31, 1999 5:00 pm

Hands on a Hardbody

Screening on Film

Directed by S.R. Bindler.
US, 1997, 35mm, color, 97 min.

The American Dream takes strange shapes, and here is one of the strangest: each year, a Nissan dealership in Eastern Texas holds a contest in which 23 hopefuls compete for a chance to win a new, hardbody pickup truck. And here are the rules: whoever manages to keep one hand on the truck the most hours wins it. The documentarians stand by filmming for the psychologically grueling hours and days while the contestants drop off one by one. This winner of the Audience Award at multiple film festivals becomes a moving drama of average people faced with physical pain, emotional hardship, a bit of triumph, and lots of defeat.

June 4 – July 31, 1999

The Cutting Edge

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