Summer Film Series

 

This summer the CAC Film Series explores the theme of lack of control over one’s own environment.  This theme is omnipresent in Anri Sala’s film series Why the Lion Roars, 57 films which are programmed to continuously change in response to the outdoor temperature in Paris.  Each film represents a degree from 11°C to 45°C, and was selected for its subjective or literal expression of temperature.  The prints in the current show, Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight, document weather forecasts and the resulting film schedule for specific dates. 

Members: Free.  Non-members: $7.50 adult, $5.50 with student ID
Films are screened in the Performance Space and all are welcome to stay after the viewing to discuss the film.


June 15, 6pm
My Own Private Idaho
We launch the Summer Film Series with this 1991 cult-classic based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. The film follows two friends on a journey of self-discovery as they embark upon an adventure from the West Coast to Idaho.


July 13, 6pm
Pierrot Le Fou
In Why the Lion Roars, Sala uses various films to represent the outdoor temperature.  One of these films was Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou (1965).  Like Sala’s own work, this film deals with the concept of unforeseen changes.  A stylish mix of consumerist satire, politics and comic-book aesthetics, the film tells a violent, zigzag tale of “the last romantic couple.”


August 10, 6pm
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) is breathtaking, fast moving, and filled with a delightfully self-mocking sense of humor.  Much like Sala’s When the Lion Roars, the film has varying degrees of emotion and mood.  It weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action into a tale of courage and hope. 

Seven Samurai is often lauded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.  Earlier this summer Cincinnati audiences at the Fringe Festival packed the house to see a quirky one-man rendition of the film.  It subsequently won the Critic’s Pick of the Fringe.  Now is your chance to see the film that inspired this Fringe favorite as well as the western The Magnificent Seven (1960), components of several Star Wars episodes, A Bug’s Life and so much more.