Friday | June 25, 2010 9:00 pm

Phase IV

Screening on Film

Directed by Saul Bass.
With Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick.
US , 1974, 35mm, color, 93 min.

The only feature film directed by pioneering graphic designer – and inventor of the modern film title sequence – Saul Bass, Phase IV is an idiosyncratic cautionary tale about nature taking revenge for man’s recklessness. Again featuring superb insect photography, Bass’s visually stunning film pits two scientists – and the inevitable female love interest – against an army of super-intelligent desert ants.

June 18 – 28, 2010

SF-1970

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

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