(2.23) Magic Lantern will present “Anti-Fascist Cinemas: A Global Perspective” Thursday at the Cable Car Cinema. The first screening in this ongoing series will reexamine the case of Germany through the lens of a militant post-war avant-garde. The program consists of a short film by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni called “Brutality in Stone” and …
(2.5) Another installment of Magic Lantern Cinema — “Masses and Swarms.” From the earliest Lumière actualities to King Vidor’s The Crowd (1928) and onward through Spring Breakers (2012), cinema has given apt expression to masses and what they seemingly do best: massing. This program presents a survey of crowds, masses, and swarms in their many …
(12.11) This past summer Magic Lantern put out the call in the Providence-Boston-New Haven area for its first submission-based program. The Local Show is the result. Rather than trying to craft a coherent, thematic program, we found it more interesting to simply highlight this heterogeneity and let these works speak for themselves. The Local Show …
(5.22) Magic Lantern Cinema presents ‘Utopic Fantasy/Infinite Gender/Experimental History’ Thursday at the Cable Car — curated by Xander Marro. Utopic narrative often leans towards the future, plumbing and prophesying worlds to come, offering a fantasy of “becoming,” idyllic tomorrows and possible (beautiful) new approaches to consciousness. But what happens when that longing turns backwards and …
(8.18) Celebrate the etchings and photographs of Kara Healey Saturday night at Machines with Magnets. The opening will start at 6pm. At 9pm, Magic Lantern Cinema will screen a series of short films on 16mm. Come for the art . . . stay for the films. Hang with friends, drink a beer, and check out phase …
(5.9) Head down to the Cable Car Cinema Wednesday for the latest installment of the Magic Lantern — The Human Disease Show. How does cinema inflect our understanding of human disease? In the more familiar disease genres – mainstream features, educational films, and military training films – one can see a narrative, step-by-step approach to …
Unique multi-media event coming up at the Museum of Natural History at Roger Williams Park. Dovetailing with the current Curiouser exhibit, the Museum of Natural History and the exhibit’s curators will partner with Magic Lantern Cinema (MLC) to stage two multi-media performances based around the museum’s extensive collection of antique glass magic lantern slides. Glass …