Get a condensed history of cinema with this daylong screening featuring highlights of cinema from the past century, drawn from the Edmond R. Ruben Film and Video Study Collection. On view will be silent films, including early Soviet-era classics; French Surrealist films; and key American experimental works.
| 9 am | Lumière Program, Louis and Auguste Lumière, 1894 |
| 9:10 am | A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), George Méliès, 1902 |
| 9:24 am | The Cameraman’s Revenge (Miest kinooperatora), Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912 |
| 9:36 am | Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin), Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 |
| 10:43 am | The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un poète), Jean Cocteau, 1930 |
| 11:34 am | Zero for Conduct (Zéro de Conduite), Jean Vigo, 1933 |
| 12:20 pm | L’Atalante, Jean Vigo, 1934 |
| 1:49 pm | Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, 1943 |
| 2:07 pm | Open City (Rome, Città Aperta), Roberto Rossellini, 1945 |
| 3:50 pm | In the Street, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee, 1952 |
| 4:02 pm | Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Les Vacanes de M. Hutot), Jacques Tati, 1953 |
| 5:27 pm | Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger, 1963 |
| 5:57 pm | Castro Street, Bruce Baillie, 1966 |
| 6:07 pm | Hold Me While I’m Naked, George Kuchar, 1966 |
| 6:24 pm | Broken English, Derek Jarman, 1979 |
| 6:36 pm | The Angelic Conversation, Derek Jarman, 1985 |
| 7:54 pm | Odilon Redon (or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity), Guy Maddin, 1995 |
| 8 pm | Lost Book Found, Jem Cohen, 1996 |
| 8:34 pm | Absence Stronger than Presence, Benita Raphan, 1996 |
| 8:42 pm | 2+2, Benita Raphan, 2002 |
| 8:53 pm | The Critical Path, Benita Raphan, 2004 |
