NORMA
Vincenzo Bellini
Opera Film
Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
June 22nd
7:00pm
Tickets are $20
At 30, Bellini wrote Norma. It became his greatest achievement and is now regarded as an example of the supreme height of the Bel Canto tradition.
Set in Gaul, at the time of Ancient Rome, Norma tells the story of the tragic love triangle between the aging priestess Norma, the Roman proconsul Pollione and his new love, the young temple Virgin Adalgisa.
Conducted by
Massimo Zanetti
Directed by
Davide Garattini Raimondi
Starring:
Patrizia Ciofi
Josè Maria Lo Monaco
Gregory Kunde
Screened in partnership with
Rising Alternative
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ART & MIND
Documentary Film
June 29th
4pm and 7pm
Tickets are $15
A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism and the unsung geniuses of Art Brut and Outsider Art.
The film features many artists including Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco Goya, Vincent Van Gogh, William Blake, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, Otto Dix, Pieter Bruegel, Henry Fuseli, Unica Zürn, André Breton, Carl Jung, Richard Dadd, Max Ernst, Henry Darger, Eugène Delacroix, George Widener, William Hogarth, Albrecht Dürer, Augustin Lesage, Théodore Géricault, Odilon Redon, Matthias Grünewald, Lucas Cranach, Leonora Carrington, William Kurelek, Antonin Artaud, Paul Rumsey, Laurie Lipton.
Directed by
Amélie Ravalec
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VAN GOGH & JAPAN
Art Exhibition Film
July 13th
4pm and 7pm
Tickets are $15
Van Gogh & Japan journeys from the critically acclaimed exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, to the beauty of Provence and the enigma of Japan itself. Featuring Van Gogh’s personal letters and written accounts by friends and contemporaries this extraordinary and moving film reveals the fascinating story of Van Gogh’s little-known deep connection to Japanese art, despite never travelling to Japan himself, and the role it has in understanding his most iconic works. As well as investigating the expression of Van Gogh’s ‘japonisme’, the film explores how Japanese society have developed an affinity to Van Gogh’s work as a result of his engagement with their culture.
Directed by
David Bickerstaff
Produced by
Phil Grabsky
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SECRET INGREDIENT
Foreign Film
July 20th
4pm and 7pm
Tickets are $15
An underpaid train mechanic gives his father a cake made of stolen marijuana to relieve his cancer pain, but he is cornered by the criminals who are searching for their drugs and the nosy neighbors who want a recipe for the healing cake.
Directed by
Gjorce Stavreski
Starring
Blagoj Veselinov,
Anastas Tanovski,
Aksel Mehmet
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