Collapsing Cinema and Stage: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
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Explore the Walker Dialogues and Film Retrospectives archive some of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of our time.
What are the British Arrows and why do we love them?
For 40 years the Walker Art Center has presented a curious holiday tradition of screening advertising awards. An exploration of the origin of the British Arrows Awards at the Walker and why are we so drawn to them?
What is a Mediatheque? (and why you should check it out)
Did you know the Walker has a free screening room with over 400 titles? Archivist Jill Vuchetich traces this history of this unique Minnesotan moving image venue.
What Gifts Do We Already Have?: adrienne maree brown and Speculative Fiction
Writer, activist, and facilitator adrienne maree brown explore hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.
As a part of her Cinema Residency at the Walker, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich conducted a series of interviews with Black women, including Rachel Scott, marion eames white, Ilze Wolff, and Sinnamon Love, to reflect on and extend themes in her work.
Collapsing Cinema and Stage: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
An exploration into the potential for resistance and struggle for change within a selection of Winnipeg films brought together by artist-filmmaker Rhayne Vermette.
What does it mean when one of the 20th century’s most successful athletes can re-immortalized as an avatar of failure through a single meme? Guest curators Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak consider the relationship between moving image, sports, identity, resistance, and pleasure.
A Galactic Aversion to the Mainstream: Theo Jean Cuthand in Conversation with Shaawan Francis Keahna
Credited with coining the term Indigiqueer, for contemporary Indigenous LGBTQI2 people, Theo Jean Cuthand (Plains Cree, Scottish/Irish) sits down with Shaawan Francis Keahna to discuss vampire video games, Indigenous trans visibility in filmmaking, as well as what futures are possible when we draw from multiple lived experiences.
How does a gesture, image, or word from history get passed down across time and space? What does it make possible in the here and now? Guest curator and writer Jon Davies, examines how queer signals sent decades ago via moving image works cry out to be heard.
A Non-Western Exchange: Looking Back at Transnational Cinema Education in the Cold War Eastern Bloc
From the 1950s through the end of the 1980s, the film and TV schools in Prague and Poland attracted hundreds of students from countries including Syria, Algeria, Iran, India, Colombia, and Cuba. Looking back at this history, a group of scholars reconsider the successes and failures of this attempt by authorities to promote global socialist solidarity.
In a season of questioning diplomacy, local artist Cameron Patricia Downey curates a collection of moving image works that explore how we perform anger and aggression.
Amid today’s changing media landscape, this series considers how contemporary queer artists trace their lineage across generations and geographies through moving images.
This series looks to instances where the production of moving images reaches beyond creative collaboration to situations in which artists’ work serves to aid and abet others directly in the challenging of systems of power.
A program of commissioned moving image works by artists—including James Marwa Arsanios, Yto Barrada, Renée Green, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz—who respond to work in the Ruben/Bentson Collection.
Exploring the use of humor as a form of resistance across today’s art and design practices.
Collection playlists curated from the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection by local artist Cameron Downey.
Responses to the the question of what is truth in times of “alternative facts” and “fake news” by Werner Herzog, critic Ben Davis, filmmaker Sabaah Folayan, artist RaMell Ross, and investigative journalist Eric Schlosser.
