For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their 11-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, his suspicious death is presumed murder and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an… Read more »
Every month, Establishing Shot brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film that they… Read more »
Americans Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and… Read more »
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman, F.W. Colqhoun, who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide, a vicious U.S. Army… Read more »
Still from *Corpus Callosum What is structural film? Alex Brannan explains the term and its place in the experimental film genre. A wave of films deemed “structural” emerged in the North American avant-garde during the 1960s. This was a brand of minimalist and highly formalist cinema. P. Adams Sitney, who coined the term “structural” to… Read more »
Still from White Balls on Walls Carmen Henne-Ochoa looks at the documentary White Balls on Walls and how it spotlights one museum’s struggles with questions of gender bias, systemic racism, and colonialism. What does it mean to “decolonize” a museum? In 2022, when I began DEIJ professional development with staff at the Eskenazi Museum, I… Read more »