Playing In Theater

Playing In Theater

Titles and series now screening at 7 Ludlow, available on demand for Metrograph Members.

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  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 113 mins | 2010
    Winner of the 2010 Palme d’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong’s film follows its fatally ill title character (Thanapat Saisaymar) on a final pilgrimage of sorts, traveling the countryside of Thailand’s rural northeast where he encounters long-lost lo...

  • Hyenas

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    Directed by Djibril Dip Mambéty | 110 mins | 1992
    One of the treasures of contemporary cinema, Senegalese master Mambéty made his long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki with this hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit. In Mamb...

  • The Hole

    Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | 89 mins | 1999
    It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei lag behind among the ruins, where maybe a last chance at communication lies through a breach between their apartments...

  • Roma

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 14 mins | 2016
    Evoking the spirit of postwar neo-realism, Marcopoulos sketches an impression of the Italian capital with unvarnished detail, capturing the quotidian life of a city where past and present collide. A lone roller-skater pirouettes beside an ancient canal...

  • Sketches for #PUNK

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 15 mins | 2019
    The rhythms of tribal dance and street basketball commune in this diasporic summit, in which studio footage of famed Zimbabwe-born, New York–based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is intercut with teenagers hitting jump shots on a Manhattan court. The cit...

  • Alone Together

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 24 mins | 2021
    Marcopoulos’s vital document of jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, filmed in an empty gallery with three cameras recording the raw behind-the-scenes set-up, captures the avant-garde legend in all of his improvised splendor, his poetry reading and a...

  • Hammons Flute

    Directed by Ari marcopoulos | 9 mins | 1991
    Marcopoulos’s intimate video portrait of David Hammons finds the artist casually resplendent in a beret and mock turtleneck and playing a flute in his cluttered New York studio, surrounded by the ephemera of his practice: paintings, sculpture, and the i...

  • My Hands Are Full

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 2 mins | 2020
    A prime example of Marcopoulos’s up-close-and-personal portraiture, this unguarded slice of storytelling brio catches the Houston-born, Nigerian American rapper Maxo freestyling alone on a sofa, dragging on a spliff and spitting infectious rhymes while—...

  • Not a Lot to Fear

    Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 3 mins | 2021
    A multi-generational portrait starring skateboarder, rapper, record producer and artist Sage Elsesser, his mother and grandmother, Marcopoulos’s short film bears witness to the bonds between three eras of Black America, with the elder matriarch, regally...

  • At Home But Not At Home

    Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri | 11 mins | 2019
    Combining excerpts from India’s Parallel Cinema movement, 16mm drone footage, and family Skype interviews, Sanzgiri’s film recounts an unorthodox history of various interlocked anti-colonial liberation movements as seen at a mediated distance, using hi...

  • Will You Look At Me

    Directed by Shuli Huang | 20 mins | 2022
    Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes 2022, Shuli Huang’s evocative Super 8 confessional tracks the queer filmmaker’s return to his hometown of Beijing and the ensuing conversation with his mother, long disapproving of her son’s sexuality and his pursuit of a...

  • afternoon

    Directed by Erica Sheu | 3 mins | 2017
    Taking inspiration from Jonas Mekas’s "The Diary Film," Los Angeles-based Taiwanese experimental filmmaker Erica Sheu deploys hand-processed 16mm film and in-camera editing to evoke the perspective of gazing through a window and onto the domestic life of an ...

  • Signal 8

    Directed by Simon Liu | 14 mins | 2019
    A hypnotic portrait of contemporary Hong Kong, Chinese-English filmmaker Simon Liu’s 16mm short is a city symphony that captures the urban infrastructure of his hometown in all of its enigmatic discord, as quotidian images of daily life are haunted by strang...

  • Disintegration 93-96

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 5 mins | 2017
    As timely now as it was upon first release, this intimate essay film—a patchwork of self-portraiture and home-movie footage overlaid with the filmmaker’s voice-over—finds Revereza reflecting upon his childhood relocation from the Philippines to California...

  • DROGA!

    Directed by Miko Revereza | 8 mins | 2014
    The debut work of Manila-born filmmaker Miko Revereza, whose features "No Data Plan" (2019) and "Nowhere Near" (2023) reflect on his experience as an undocumented resident in the United States, this 8mm short—comprising a repeated shot of a singer and a c...

  • History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

    Directed by Rea Tajiri | 32 mins | 1991
    A groundbreaking, highly influential work by the Chicago-born visual artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri, this poetic tapestry of the personal and the political reckons with the internment of some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, amo...