Films Week of Sunday, November 10, 2024-Saturday, November 16, 2024
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.
10 Nov Sun / 2024
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Bird
5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
A striking coming-of-age tale that hides its magic in plain sight, Bird follows 12-year-old Bailey, who 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 squat, she meets Bird, an eccentric dreamer who dares Bailey to spread her wings.
13 Nov Wed / 2024
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I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být)
7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
In the last decades of the Soviet Union, a young, queer female photographer breaks free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embraces the underground hedonism of the times on a wild journey to freedom and self-acceptance.
14 Nov Thu / 2024
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gOD-Talk
6 p.m.—9 p.m.Presented to complement the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, this screening and discussion explore the spiritual lives of Black Millennials.
15 Nov Fri / 2024
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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.
16 Nov Sat / 2024
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Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
2:15 p.m.—3:45 p.m.Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Archival footage, interviews, animation, and Dory Previn’s own journal entries and lyrics combine in a refreshing documentary that avoids the often-expected redemption arc to tell the more powerful story of a woman who dared to confront her own complexity.
