Films Week of Wednesday, November 6, 2024-Tuesday, November 12, 2024


Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Through January 12, 2025

This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.

07 Nov Thu / 2024

  • Tendaberry Film Image
    Tendaberry
    7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    A kinetic portrait of Dakota (Kota Johan), a twentysomething New York City transplant adrift in post-pandemic Brooklyn from writer-director Haley Elizabeth Anderson. When her boyfriend (Yuri Pleskun) is called back to his native Ukraine to care for his ailing father, Dakota is forced to navigate the city and its hardships alone and pregnant.

09 Nov Sat / 2024

  • Candy Mountain Film Poster
    Candy Mountain
    2:30 p.m.—4:15 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    The criminally under-seen rock ’n’ roll road movie from Robert Frank and longtime collaborator Rudy Wurlitzer sees Kevin O’Connor as a down-on-his-luck musician looking to strike it rich by locating elusive guitar-maker Elmore Silk, whose creations turn a major profit in the music scene.

  • Basquiat Film Poster
    Basquiat in B/W
    7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    From visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel comes an evocative personal rendering of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, told in a series of vignettes tracing his turn from street kid graffiti artist to one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.

10 Nov Sun / 2024

  • Bird Film Poster
    Bird
    5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    Twelve-year-old Bailey lives with her single father Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug struggles to find time for his children, leading Bailey to seek adventure elsewhere. Leaving the graffiti-covered walls of the squat where her family resides, she meets Bird, an eccentric dreamer who dares her to spread her wings. A striking coming-of-age tale that …