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Daily Stream: Wex virtual screenings as of September 4

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Sep 04, 2020

A group of Bangladeshi women stare intently at something off screen in the film Made in Bangladesh

The center's closed as we prepare to share our suite of exhibitions for Fall 2020, but you can still settle in for a Wex-presented film at home through our virtual screenings. Presented in partnership with filmmakers and independent distributors, many of the films also offer an opportunity to support the Wex with the purchase of a streaming ticket. Here's what's new for Labor Day weekend. 

Premiering today: Beau Travail

Two men stare at each other across an empty field, with a bright blue body of water in the background

Image courtesy of Janus Films

"What Ms. Denis has made of "Billy Budd" is the visually spellbinding cinematic equivalent of a military ballet in which the legionnaires' rigorous drills and training rituals are depicted as ecstatic rites of purification, the embodiment of an impenetrable masculine mystique before which the director stands in awe."—New York Times

New restoration!

More about the film

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Premiering today: Made in Bangladesh

A woman with long black hair is seen from behind, walking down a fog-filled street in Bangladesh

Images above and at top of page courtesy of ArtMattan Films

"There’s more than one fire raging at the core of this gripping, neorealist tale."—Austin Chronicle

More about the film

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Coming September 8: Derf Backderf, on Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

The cover of Derf Backderf's 2020 graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Cover image courtesy of Abrams ComicArts

We’re excited to present a live online conversation and book signing at 7 PM on Tuesday with best-selling cartoonist and Ohio State alum Derf Backderf in conjunction with the release of his latest extraordinary work Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio.

More about the event and how you can order a book for signing

 

Holding: Ghost Tropic

A wide shot of a woman walking alone on a city street at night from the film Ghost Tropic

Image courtesy of Cinema Guild

"It gave me a greater feeling of peace than I’ve had in months."—Boston Globe

More about the film

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Holding: Amy Yoes, Equator

cyan-colored geometric shapes as seen in Amy Yoes' animated short Equator

Image courtesy of the artist

The culmination of a two-year residency in our Film/Video Studio, Amy Yoes’s Equator illustrates her interest in architectural space and its details. A simple vocabulary of geometric shapes is given life through richly layered stop-motion animation that continually builds and collapses upon itself. An equally dense and complex soundtrack, made from found and thrifted everyday objects, gives voice to the unfolding landscape.

Watch the film for free through September 30.

 

Also holding

USA women's gymnastics team smiling and holding each other in celebration of victory

From Athlete A, courtesy of Netflix

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