23 MILE by Mitch McCabe
Friday, September 6, 7 pm
Walker Cinema
$15 ($12 Walker members and seniors, free for students)
In their political video diary, Mitch McCabe returns to their home state of Michigan amid the cacophony of early 2020. Centering a diverse populace, the artist listens to and converses with people in the streets at overlapping uprisings and rallies. These competing and conflicting protest narratives defy stereotypes and challenge expectations of the binary divisions running through America today. Viewing 2020 as a touchstone and turning point, 23 MILE creates a complex and nuanced portrait of ground-level ideas, perceptions, and ongoing battles. 2023, US, DCP, 78 min.
A conversation with filmmaker Mitch McCabe, Dr. Morgan Adamson, and Dr. Catherine R. Squires follows the screening.
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival: Closing Day
Mizna’s 18th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a 5:30–7 pm reception catered by Baba’s Hummus House & Mana’eesh Bakery.
Showcasing contemporary cinema made by Arab and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) filmmakers, the full festival runs September 25–29 primarily at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis. For schedule and festival pass information, visit mizna.org.
dreamworlds, curated by Nasrin Himada
Sunday, September 29, 3:30 pm
Walker Cinema
$15 ($12 Walker members, seniors, and students)
“Filmmakers make the light. There is always poetry in images and images in poetry: imagination, desire, steadfastness, and liberation are entangled into material manifestations of scenes, vignettes, soundscapes, lightscapes, stillness, and rhythm.” —Nasrin Himada
Curator Nasrin Himada imagines Palestinian and Indigenous artists’ films and videos as proposals for possible worlds made up of dreams, love for the land, and liberation. The program includes works by Kamal Aljafari, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, NIC Kay, Tiffany Sia, Rhayne Vermette, Sky Hopinka, and Tacita Dean.
Following the screening, Himada and Anishinaabe-kwe curator Wanda Nanibush will discuss their values-grounded approaches to working with artists and ideas of land rights, liberation, and Indigenous self-determination.
Program
Tacita Dean, The Green Ray, 2001, 16mm, 3 min.
Sky Hopinka, Lore, 2019, 10 min.
Tiffany Sia, What Rules the Invisible, 2022, 10 min.
Kamal Aljafari, Paradiso, XXXI, 108, 2022, 18 min.
Rhayne Vermette, Black Rectangle, 2013, 16mm, 2 min.
NIC Kay, wait, wait, wait (Renegade), 2022, 2 min.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Only the beloved keeps our secrets, 2016, 10 min.
Program length: 55 min.
Goodbye Julia by Mohamed Kordofani
Sunday, September 29, 7 pm
Walker Cinema
$15 ($12 Walker members, seniors, and students)
The festival’s closing-night film by award-winning Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani features a retired singer’s attempts to make amends with a widow. Taking place in Khartoum during the last years of Sudan as a united country, Goodbye Julia presages the political and humanitarian crisis in the Sudan today, while confronting the polarizing racism and social apartheid in divided Sudanese communities, in an expression of the director’s desire for reconciliation. 2023, Sudan, DCP, in Arabic with English subtitles, 120 min.
Following the screening, director Mohamed Kordofani will be in conversation with fellow Sudanese filmmaker Fatima Wardy.