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Janie Geiser’s Time, a substance
In person: filmmaker Janie Geiser in conversation with USC professor Holly Willis
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Sun, Apr 26, 2026
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An Evening of Short Films from Asian American Filmmakers
The Academy is celebrating Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander Heritage month with this selection of short films featuring Asian American filmmakers and stories. The evening includes two animated films, Ishu Patel’s Oscar-nominated Bead Game (1977), and Soar (2014), from filmmaker Alyce Tzue. Arthur Dong’s Oscar-nominated documentary short, Sewing Woman (1982), tells the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, while Sean Wang (Dìdi) was nominated for his documentary Nai Nai & Wài Pó (2023), depicting the close friendship of his elderly grandmothers. Jon M. Chu (Wicked, 2024) won a DGA Student Film Award for his musical short Gwai Lo: The Little Foreigner (2002). Filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Fire Island, 2022) made his short film Dol (First Birthday, 2011) partly as a way of coming out to his parents. Masami Kawai’s Nami (2015) depicts a day in the life of a grieving widow in her journey across Los Angeles. In Amrita Singh’s Winning in America (2021), a teenage girl faces the challenges of a spelling bee and her coach father.
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Welcome II the Terrordome with Ashley Clark
In person: Ashley Clark and director Ngozi Onwurah
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The Year of the Cannibals (I cannibali) in 4K
Known internationally for her divisive, erotic wartime drama The Night Porter (1974), Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani got her start in biographical television dramas with films about Saint Francis of Assisi and the astronomer Galileo. Her memorable theatrical feature debut is loosely based on Sophocles’s Antigone, a play in which the titular heroine attempts to bury her brother despite laws forbidding it. Set in a totalitarian Milan, The Year of the Cannibals opens on streets strewn with the corpses of rebels, their “dead bodies serv[ing] as an example to prevent more death.” Grieving her brother, whose body lies in front of a bar, Cavani’s modern-day Antigone (Britt Ekland) seeks help to defy the burial ban, finding an ally in a foreigner (Pierre Clémenti). Featuring a score by the incomparable Ennio Morricone and with editing by Sergio Leone regular Nino Baragli, this shocking, no-holds-barred political satire is primed for rediscovery in its newly restored 4K edition.
Programmed and note by K.J. Relth-Miller.
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Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa
One of the leading experimental filmmakers of the 21st century, Tomonari Nishikawa began his practice in 2003, exploring the tangible qualities and apparatus of filmmaking. “Just as an artist carries a sketchbook and practices drawing,” Nishikawa said of his early Sketch Film(s) #1–5, “I carried a Super 8 camera and practiced stop-motion animation of the lines and shapes I see in public spaces,” documenting city streets in his native Japan and in New York. Using in-camera techniques and strategic masking to capture life in compounded fragments, Nishikawa creates tiny magic tricks of time and space, elegantly showcased in Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016), a contemplative short that features bridges in his hometown of Mount Ōkawairi, Japan, and his “slipstream city symphonies” (Mubi Notebook) like Shibuya – Tokyo (2010) and 45 7 Broadway (2013). Nishikawa’s films have been showcased around the world; lauded at international festivals; and deeply appreciated by his students at Binghamton University in New York. When Nishikawa passed away suddenly in April 2025, at the age of 55, he left behind his influence on a generation of aspiring filmmakers and a collection of remarkable shortform works, showcased in near completion in this program. All films are directed by Tomonari Nishikawa. Special thanks to Miki Nishikawa, Canyon Cinema, and Lightcone. Program and notes by K.J. Relth-Miller. Total program runtime: approx. 70 min.
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