Featuring:
Bookends
Kel McQueen
Strange Implications
Email and the CCs
Spence Cat Bailey
Volcano Lotus

Doors @ 8:30
First act @ 9

RUTH & THE STONES is a five lady harmony-singing country music force of nature. Named after ethnomusicologist Ruth Stone, these five graduate students play their way through country greats, traditional tunes, and throw in some originals.

The Filmmaker to Filmmaker: Conversations from the Director’s Chair annual program pairs two complementary film directors on stage together, discussing their artistic vision, process, and bodies of work, surrounded by screenings of their films. This year’s program pairs two visionary filmmakers who each have new films in 2018, Alejandra Marquez Abella and Lucrecia Martel.

Alejandra Márquez Abella is a writer/director who was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and studied filmmaking at Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. She is currently based in Mexico City and works in film and television. Her first two feature films, Semana Santa (2015) and The Good Girls (2018), both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Born in Argentina, Lucrecia Martel is considered a master filmmaker in the international film community. Her four feature films have premiered at the world’s top film festivals—Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, New York, Sundance, and Rotterdam—and retrospectives of her work have been widely exhibited. Martel has served on official film juries and taught masterclasses around the world. Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar said of her work, “When you discover an auteur so original, mature, and elusive as Lucrecia Martel, you feel as if you’re witnessing a miracle.”

The program is endowed through a gift from Roberta and Jim Sherman, with an Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign Match. This program is additionally supported by the IU Arts and Humanities Council and Mexico Remixed.

Series: Filmmaker to Filmmaker: Conversations from the Director’s Chair, International Arthouse Series

Not rated, 2018, 2K DCP, Documentary, Directed by Steve Loveridge

Drawn from a cache of personal videos from the past 22 years, the Sundance award-winning Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is a startling profile of the critically acclaimed M.I.A., chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee to immigrant to global phenom. Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. provides unparalleled, intimate access to the artist in her battles with the music industry and mainstream media en route to becoming one of the most recognizable, outspoken, and provocative voices in music today. In English and Tamil with English subtitles.

Not rated, 2016, 2K DCP, Action/Adventure, Drama, Directed by Lav Diaz

Shot in black-and-white and set during the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against Spain, the ballad of Jocelynang Baliwag becomes the hymn of the insurgents. While searching for the body of Andres Bonifacio, Father of the Revolution, we embark on an epic journey through history, literature, and mythology. Lav Diaz is a master of interconnected narratives filled with abstractions. “It is perilous to argue about historical details. It is more perilous to correct any distortions made on historical events. But, it is most perilous of all to turn your back on the truth behind these events” (Diaz). In English, Tagalog, Spanish, Mandarin, and Filipino with English subtitles.