Wex Nexus: 2011-2012 in Review

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Visiting Filmmaker: David Gatten Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts: Parts I–IV Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time + Introductions by David Gatten for all 3 programs

November 17–18 Series traveled to National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 21–22, 2012; Harvard Film Archives, Cambridge, Mass., February 10–12, 2012; San Francisco Cinematheque, with screenings at the Pacific Film Archives on April 4, 2012, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April 5, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on April 7, 2012. It will also travel to Los Angeles, with screenings at the Velaslavasay Panorama (copresented by The Museum of Jurassic Technology) on October 27, 2012, at Los Angeles Filmforum on October 28, 2012, and at REDCAT on October 28, 2012.

Zoom Family Film Festival Stooge-a-thon! Zoom Warm-Up: The Three Stooges in In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941); Micro-Phonies (1945); The Hot Scots (1948); An Ache in Every Stake (1941) Racing Dreams (Marshall Curry, 2010) Girls POV Kid Flix Mix Lassie Come Home (Fred M. Wilcox, 1943) A Cat in Paris (Jean-Loup Felicoli & Alain Gagnol, 2010) Chandani: The Daughter of the Elephant Whisperer (Arne Birkenstock, 2010) Laurel & Hardy and Friends: Big Business (1929); Go West (1923); Movie Night (1929), with live music by Super Desserts Tales of the Night (Michel Ocelot, 2011) + Saturday Morning Cereal and Pajama Party (hosted by Heirloom) + Ice Cream Social (featuring Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams) + Family Art Activities

November 25–December 4 Cinema Latino El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983) Medianeras (Gustavo Taretto, 2011) Octubre (Diego & Daniel Vega, 2010) A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010) Preceded by As Follows (Federico Veiroj, 2004) The Invisible Eye (Diego Lerman, 2010) Santo the Silver Mask vs. the Martian Invasion (Alberto B. Crevenna, 1966) Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (Pamela Yates, 2011) Chico & Rita (Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, 2010) January 5–28 Series cosponsored by Hispanic Chamber of Columbus and Ohio State’s Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

New Worlds: Immigration on Film El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983) In Between Days (So Yong Kim, 2006) Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani, 2005) Lamerica (Gianni Amelio, 1994) January 5–26 Series presented in conjunction with Ohio State’s year-long “Conversation on Immigration” that begins the Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) initiative launched by the university’s Center for Ethics and Human Values.

UCLA Festival of Preservation Film (Alan Schneider, 1965) Play of the Week: “Waiting For Godot” (Alan Schneider, 1961) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman, 1982) Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) The Forgotten Village (Herbert Kline, 1941) Preceded by Mexico in the Hearst Metrotone News Collection (1930s–40s) This Is Your Life—The Holocaust + Introduction by Julie Kohner

The Crusades (Cecil B. DeMille, 1935) Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948) Strangers in the Night (Anthony Mann, 1944) Rainbow Over Texas (Frank McDonald, 1947) Heart of the Rio Grande (William Morgan, 1942) February 4–23 Field & Screen Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Sturla Gunarsson, 2010) + Panel Discussion

Milk and the Land (Ariana Gerstein & Monteith McCollum, 2009)

Based on the Play by William Shakespeare Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961) Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971) April 5–26 Programmed in conjunction with Ohio State’s Year of Shakespeare initiative, organized and supported by the Arts Initiative at Ohio State with partners across the university in conjunction with the university’s multiyear partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Cinema 614: A Bicentennial Celebration The Notorious Jack Smith: Flaming Creatures and Selected Shorts: Scotch Tape (1959–62); Flaming Creatures (1962– 63); Yellow Sequence (1963–65); I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo (1967–70s); Hot Air Specialists (1980s) The Notorious Jack Smith: Normal Love (1963–65) The Notorious Jack Smith: No President and Selected Shorts: No President (1967–70); Respectable Creatures (1950– 66); Overstimulated (1959–63); Song for Rent (1969); Jungle Island (1967) The Male Animal (Elliott Nugent, 1942) Preceded by The Unicorn in the Garden (William T. Hurtz, 1953) Jennie Gerhardt (Marion Gering, 1933) 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) O. Henry’s Full House (various directors, 1952) Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis, 1970) June 7–28

+ Introduction by Warren Taylor of Snowville Creamery

VISITING FILMMAKERS

Earthwork (Chris Ordal, 2011)

Guy Maddin Keyhole (2011) Member Preview Screening September 23 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Arthur Lubin, 1944 ) Forty Guns (Sam Fuller, 1957) September 25

+ Preceded by Kudzu Vine (Josh Gibson, 2011)

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (Gereon Wetzel, 2011) Truck Farm (Ian Cheney, 2011) Preceded by The City Dark (Ian Cheney, 2011) + Introduction by Ian Cheney + Dinner & A Movie at Heirloom

Letters from the Big Man (Christopher Munch, 2011) + Introduction by Christopher Munch

Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson: Landscapes: Sveit (2009); Landslag (2004) + Introduction by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson

February 10–29

Gary Hustwit Urbanized (2011) October 12 Lynne Sachs The Last Happy Day (2009) States of UnBelonging (2006) November 3


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