Film/Video

Picture Lock 2025

Six images from films in Picture Lock 2025.
A weekend-long celebration of films created here at the Wex.
Mar 20, 2025 – Mar 22, 2025

Tickets sold separately for each film.

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For the past 35 years the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio has helped hundreds of artists and filmmakers in their pursuit of picture lock: the moment during the postproduction process when all creative options have been explored and the project’s edit is complete. The Picture Lock festival celebrates this rich history in a concentrated weekend featuring recently completed films and projects from our archive, with most films presented by their directors.

IMAGE CAPTION
Clockwise from top left: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way, How to Have an American Baby, Como Vivimos, X 1/2: The Legacy of Malcolm X, The Dells, courtesy of the artists. 

A group photo of seven young, Black individuals, they are smiling with their arms around eachother.
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The Revolution, Televised: Not Channel Zero George Sosa, Black Planet Productions, in person

Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:00 PM
A couple stands outside looking at a photo together.
Ohio Premiere
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2024) Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich in person

Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 6:00 PM
A farm worker wearing a hoodie and baseball hat walks through a field carrying a hoe.
Midwest Premiere
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Como Vivimos (How We Live, Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, 2024) Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz in person

Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 4:30 PM
A pregnant Asian woman pushes a shopping cart through the baby section of a store.
Ohio Premiere
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How to Have an American Baby (Leslie Tai, 2023) Leslie Tai in person

Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 7:00 PM
A man wearing a kaffiyeh over his head and face standing in front of trees.
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From the Archive: Media Criticism and the Middle East

Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Four images from shorts in Picture Lock Shorts program.
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Picture Lock Shorts

Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 2:00 PM
Six individuals in a boat facing away with shirts that say "you wouldn't understand"
Ohio Premiere
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The Dells (Nellie Kluz, 2024) Nellie Kluz in person

Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 4:00 PM
A crowd of people mingles in the Wexner Center's lower lobby, there are tables and food.
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Picture Lock Reception

Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 6:00 PM
A piece of paper with a handwritten note, a view of the sidewalk, a screenshot of google maps.
Ohio Premiere
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Please Hold (Alexandra Juhasz, 2025) Alexandra Juhasz in person

Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 7:00 PM

Program Support

Picture Lock 2025 was co-organized by Film/Video Studio Director Jennifer Lange and Film/Video Studio Graduate Research Associate Allie Mickle.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Louise Lambert Braver