December 7th-10th

The ever-curious Bavarian guides us through the world’s oldest and most exclusive art gallery: the Chauvet cave paintings of southern France. Flickering, shifting light reveals awe-inspiring proto-cinematic images – we’re asked to consider what these images in turn might say about our ancestors and the nature of art.

This work of intense, gripping entertainment opens up the human drama at the heart of a tragic real-life struggle: the intricate link between Africa’s diamond trade and the funding of its violent unrest, set here amidst the brutal atrocities of the Sierra Leone Civil. Co-sponsored by WesAmnesty, who will present information about this issue.

You don’t have to be a giant nerd to enjoy this movie. The appeals are universal: fun future tech like phasers and warp drives; a vengeful, genetically-engineered tyrant armed with brain-controlling eels; young Kirstie Alley as a hot Vulcan; and, of course, the absolute acme of Shatnerian over-acting.

At times unfathomably violent, at other profoundly human, Chuan’s crossover art film presents a harrowing depiction of the Nanking Massacre with a controversially nuanced portrayal of its Japanese perpetrators. Beautiful cinematic form confronts viewers with their own ignorance, complicity, or indifference to history.