Film

  Two interwoven stories of life in Australia before colonization are presented in both color and black & white in seamless transitions. Considered both groundbreaking and mesmerizing, it swept the 2006 […]

Set in 1931 and based on true events, Rabbit Proof Fence tells the story of three Aboriginal girls who escape from a life of indentured servitude and set out across […]

In conjunction with Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, the museum is screening two short documentaries Nyapanyapa: The Constant Artist and Bush Plum: The Contemporary Art of […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a groundbreaking film in the history of African American cinema.  It tells of a […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Cleopatra Jones tells of a federal super-agent (Tamara Dobson) who is a martial arts expert armed with intellect and […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Black Girl explores the complex dynamics and devastating legacy of colonialism.  It centers on a young Senegalese woman who […]

Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, […]

In conjunction with our exhibition, Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists, NAM will screen several short films* by influential women directors, including Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, and Joyce Wieland. Free and […]

Drop by Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center for a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's "Que Viva Mexico" (1931) with an introduction by Fabiola Ramirez Gutierrez, PhD Candidate at the Stone […]