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ABOUT ENDLESSNESS: Last Day Thursday, July 1st

Director: Roy Andersson

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent ABOUT ENDLESSNESS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 72 hours.

 


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Running Time: 76 min76 MIN
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A MASTERPIECE. Utterly unique. A mesmerizing odyssey to the heart of existence.

Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
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WE BROKE UP: Last Day Thursday, July 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Rosenberg
Cast: Aya Cash, William Jackson Harper, Sarah Bolger

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent WE BROKE UP you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

Lori and Doug, a longtime couple break up just days before Lori’s little sister Bea’s wedding. In order to not disrupt the fun, the couple decides to pretend they’re still together until the weekend is over.

 

How to stream

For $7, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 


 

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Running Time: 80 min80 MIN
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The LGBT Center Presents KILLING PATIENT ZERO

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Available to watch April 16th – 18th, 2021

Watch Dr. McKay’s talk at 12:00PM on Thursday, April 15th

 

How to watch

On April 15, OHIO’s Contemporary History Institute is hosting Dr. Richard McKay discussing “Patient Zero: Seeking Epidemic Origins from AIDS to COVID-19” on April 15 from noon to 1 p.m.

Learn more and join the talk here.

Dr. McKay’s book, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, published in 2017 by the University of Chicago Press, was named by CHOICE Review as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 and produced as a documentary feature film, Killing Patient Zero. The film won the American Historical Association’s 2020 John E. O’Connor Award for outstanding presentation of history through film.

The OHIO LGBT Center is proud to sponsor a stream of the documentary one the weekend following Dr. McKay’s talk (April 16 through April 18). Register below and you will receive the free link to stream in your email.

Streaming access information will be emailed to those registered on Friday, April 16th. If you register after Friday morning on the week of the event, please note there may be a delay in receiving your registration access information. Access information will be sent daily at 5:00 p.m. through Sunday, April 18th. Be sure to check your spam, clutter, or junk folder if you have not seen your registration email by 5:00.

*Registration for this event is now closed.*

 

 

About the film

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media.

Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.

About the speaker

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Dr. Rich McKay came to the UK in 2005 with over a decade of teaching experience and having worked in the health and fitness fields, and in film and television production. At the University of Oxford, he completed a master’s degree and doctorate in history, focusing on HIV/AIDS and public health. He continues to have one foot in the higher education sector: since 2013 he has held a part-time Wellcome Trust research fellowship at the University of Cambridge and his research has been published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and Nature. His first book, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (University of Chicago Press, 2017), was released as an audiobook (HighBridge Audio, 2017), selected as a CHOICE Review Outstanding Academic Title for 2018, and developed into the documentary feature film, Killing Patient Zero (2019). In recognition of his contribution to historical scholarship, Dr. McKay was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2019.

This event is sponsored by the Ohio University LGBT Center.

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This film is made available by University Libraries streaming resource, Films on Demand.

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Running Time: 100 min100 MIN
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A revealing cinematic exoneration.

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS: Last Day Thursday, July 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Jeffrey Wolf

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.

Having witnessed profound social and political change during a life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration, Traylor devised his own visual language to translate an oral culture into something original, powerful, and culturally rooted. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.

Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life. Making dramatic and surprising use of tap dance and evocative period music, the film balances archival photographs and footage, insightful perspectives from his descendents, and Traylor’s striking drawings and paintings to reveal one of America’s most prominent artists to a wide audience.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

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After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for ten days.

 


 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

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Running Time: 75 min75 MIN
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Brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s art to life and shines a spotlight on a creative gift that was long ignored and marginalized.

Dave McNary
Variety
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SLALOM: Last Day Thursday, July 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Charlène Favier
Cast: Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Marie Denarnaud

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent SLALOM you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country’s top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his shining star despite her lack of experience. Under his influence, she will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape Fred’s exploitative grip?

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

You will have to register for a free KinoNow account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for ten days.

 


 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

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Running Time: 92 min92 MIN
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Slalom is important, impeccably played drama.

Kevin Maher
Times
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ANOTHER ROUND: Last Day Thursday, June 3rd

Watch Trailer Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe
Language: Danish, Swedish

*Winner of Best International Feature at the Academy Awards!*

 

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent ANOTHER ROUND you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

There’s a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. If Churchill won WW2 in a heavy daze of alcohol, who knows what a few drops might do for them and their students?

Initial results are positive, and the teachers’ little project turns into a genuine academic study. Both their classes and their results continue to improve, and the group feels alive again! As the units are knocked back, some of the participants see further improvement and others go off the rails. It becomes increasingly clear that while alcohol may have fueled great results in world history, some bold acts carry consequences.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 


 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

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Running Time: 116 min116 MIN
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Pop some champagne, crack open the whisky and guzzle back that ice-cold beer. The feelgood film of this or any festival has arrived, and it's a boozy-woozy marvel.

Kevin Maher
Times
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WOJNAROWICZ: Last Day Thursday, May 27th

Watch Trailer Director: Chris McKim

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent WOJNAROWICZ you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work – including paintings, journals, and films – reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. Rediscovered answering machine tape recordings and intimate recollections from Fran Lebowitz, Gracie Mansion, Peter Hujar, and other friends and family help present a stirring portrait of this fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

You will have to register for a free KinoNow account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for ten days.

 


 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 105 min105 MIN
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There's... considerable beauty and invention on display here, as often there was even in David Wojnarowicz's most enraged work.

Dennis Harvey
Variety
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THE MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY: Last Day Thursday, May 27th

Watch Trailer Director: Craig Pryce

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

Based on a true story, this entertaining and informative film took place in 1972. It’s about an outlandish study on the effects of marijuana on young women. This film centers around five young women who shared a common goal: to make some money and have a fresh start in life.

It began as fun, like Hippie camp, and many of the young women thrived and at their given tasks despite their “toke times”. The scientists, frustrated and surprised with the women’s motivation, decided to give them ever-increasing THC levels. This didn’t stop most of the women’s productivity until many become zombified by the excessive doses. The girls used their unique strengths, resilience and friendship in order to overcome this extreme adversity. To this day, the women still do not know the results. They deserve their story to be told, and they deserve answers.

 

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Running Time: 124 min124 MIN
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FRANCESCO: Last Day Thursday, May 27th

Watch Trailer Director: Evgeny Afineevksy

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent FRANCESCO you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

FRANCESCO is the headline-making Pope Francis documentary from Oscar® nominated director and producer, Evgeny Afineevksy. This groundbreaking film features unprecedented access to His Holiness Pope Francis, providing an intimate look at a global leader who approaches challenging and complex issues with tremendous humility, wisdom and generosity towards all.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

You will have to register for a free Eventive account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 72 hours.

 


If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

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Running Time: 116 min116 MIN
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STRAY: Last Day Thursday, May 20th

Watch Trailer Director: Elizabeth Lo

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent STRAY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security, following three strays as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds companions in the security guards who care for her. The strays’ disparate lives intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians with whom they share the streets. Director Elizabeth Lo’s award-winning film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

You will have to register for a free Eventive account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 72 hours.

 


If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

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Running Time: 73 min73 MIN
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Stray is as much a testament to dogs' empathy for humans as it is human's empathy for dogs.

Sophy Romvari
Globe and Mail
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