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Daily Stream: Wex virtual screenings as of May 29

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

May 29, 2020

A hand holds four pills in a scene from Lewis Klahr's film Circumstantial Pleasures

Buy a ticket to support the Wex! A portion of streaming fees for films presented through our independent distributor partners helps us continue what we do. (There are several great free options this week, too.)

Premiering today: Circumstantial Pleasures

The bottom half of a white male and female couple are seen lying on a mattress with miniature architectural forms and a stack of money - a scene from Lewis Klahr's film Circumstantial Pleasures

Images above and at top of page courtesy of the artist

"With alchemical invention, [animator Lewis Klahr] takes this cultural detritus to make work that hovers—tentatively, teasingly—on the very precipice of narrative... One of the most consistently inventive figures in noncommercial American cinema."—New York Times

Exclusive online premiere! Join us next Friday, June 5 for a livestream conversation with Klahr, filmmaker and programmer Courtney Stephens, and Wex Film/Video Assistant Curator Chris Stults.

RSVP for the June 5 talk & watch the film for free here through June 14.

 

Premiering today: Joan of Arc

Lisa Leplat Prudhomme in Bruno Dumont's Joan of Arc

Image courtesy of KimStim

"Adapting a play by Charles Péguy, Dumont turns the tale into a dialectical spectacle: he stages military musters like Busby Berkeley productions, seethes at the torturers’ rationalizations, delights in hearing his actors declaim the scholars’ sophistries, and thrills in the pugnacious simplicity of Joan’s defiant responses, which reduce her captors’ pride to ridicule."—The New Yorker

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Premiering June 1 Out of The Box—Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson: Seances

A scene from Guy Maddin's algorithmic film experience Seances

Image courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada

"Collaborating with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Nickel Media, Maddin and his co-creators—brothers Evan and Galen Johnson—built an algorithm that remixes 30 films that the director shot especially for the project. Seances allows the audience to interact with the film through the algorithm, which builds a never-before-seen ephemeral film that will, like lost films, never be seen again."—VICE

Learn more about the film and watch for free here starting Monday.

 

Holding: No Data Plan

A tray table holds a disposable coffee cup and an iPhone hooked up to a charging cable in a scene from the film No Data Plan

Image courtesy of Sentient.Art.Film

“This isn’t an issue documentary. I want it to be seen not for its issues but for the mere existence of being on the train and observing the world and also the potential precarities of traveling across the geography of the United States.”—Filmmaker Miko Revereza in Vox

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Holding: Supa Modo

A young superheroine holds off a group of four masked assailants in a scene from the film Supa Modo

Image courtesy of Juno Films

"I’m guessing a little film that might restore your faith in human decency would not be unwelcome right now... Supa Modo may center on a young girl with a terminal illness, but it will warm your heart in the sweetest way, spinning its tale of escapist fantasy, cold reality and the simple joy of the movies."—Maddwolf.com

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Also holding

Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Calvin Klein in a street photo taken by Bill Cunningham, seen in the documentary The Times of Bill Cunningham

The Times of Bill Cunningham, image courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

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