September in the Walker Cinema
Friday, September 12, 7 pm
Saturday, September 13, 7 pm
$15 ($12 Walker members, students, and seniors. Free for students on Friday.)
The self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World,” Wisconsin Dells is seared in the Midwest’s public imagination as a summer family vacation capital. Behind the stores and parks bringing these holidays to life, one can find many young adults from countries such as Turkey, Thailand, and Jamaica living in dormitories and making ends meet. Sponsored by the US State Department’s Summer Work Travel program, these J-1 visa students work long hours for low-paying jobs. The Dells follows an ensemble cast of “J-1s” working, partying, and cruising around the Wisconsin Dells as their youthful optimism for American luck brushes against their real-life experiences, in turn disappointing, humorous, and transcendent.
2024, US, DCP, in English, Turkish, and Spanish with English subtitles, 72 min.
A conversation with filmmaker Nellie Kluz and writer Lucy Schiller follows the screening on Friday, September 12.
Reassemblage in the Relational Film by Nadia Shihab
Sunday, September 28, 3:30 pm
$15 ($12 Walker members, seniors, and students)
Walker Cinema
Mizna’s 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a reception co-presented with the Walker. In her lecture performance, “Reassemblage in the Relational Film,” filmmaker Nadia Shihab explores how her filmmaking practice responds to rupture and loss through the reworking of fragments, while centering intergenerational collaboration, sound and multiple voices, the feminist archive, and resistance. The lecture will include a screening of three recent short films by Shihab. A conversation with artist Nadia Shihab follows the program.
our voices in reverse (portrait of mama) 2013/2022, US/Canada, DCP, 3 min.
Echolocation, 2021, US/Canada, DCP, in Iraqi Turkish (Turkman) and English with English subtitles, 9 min.
Sister Mother Lover Child, 2023, US/Canada, DCP, Iraqi Turkish (Turkman) and English, 18 min.
East of Noon by Hala Elkoussy
Sunday, September 28, 7 pm
$15 ($12 Walker members, seniors, and students)
Walker Cinema
Mizna’s 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a closing reception co-presented with the Walker. Following her distinctive debut, Cactus Flower (2017), Hala Elkoussy’s second feature, East of Noon, bends and blends genres, resulting in a satirical, contemporary fable, all shot on 16mm. Set somewhere in Egypt, between a gritty industrial town and an imaginary seascape, Elkoussy constructs a hyperreal world steeped in classic Egyptian film references, theatrical tableaux, and experimental sound compositions.
2024, Netherlands/Egypt/Qatar, DCP, in Arabic with English subtitles, 109 min.