Join us for an unforgettable, one-night only event, featuring a rare collection of short films from the silent era accompanied by live music from local jazz musicians, The Eddy/Meyer Trio.

Cash Bar featuring signature cocktails with local spirits from West End Distillery, crafted by Nicholas Littlehouse.

The collection includes everything from fantasy to animation, slapstick and more. Enjoy claymation by Willis O’Brien (King Kong) distributed by Thomas Edison, George Melies’ (including TRIP TO THE MOON), Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin and much more.

(Exact order is subject to change.)

About the Artist

The Eddy/Meyer trio was formed in Athens, OH in the fall of 2018 by brothers Jake and Carter Eddy on guitar and bass and clarinetist, Andrew D. Meyer. Dedicated to energetic, swinging performances of traditional jazz and tunes from the Great American Songbook as well as European favorites by the likes of Django Reinhardt, the group has performed widely throughout Ohio and West Virginia, and has broadcast performances further afield via live radio and web broadcasts.

Friday, January 31st, $10.00 admission. Pre-seating starts at 6:00PM, performance begins at 7:00PM. This event features an intermission.

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In 1989, the very idea of a competitive all-female sailboat crew was nearly inconceivable to the manly world of open-ocean yacht racing. They’d never make it to the start of the Whitbread Round the World Race, much less survive to the finish. They’d never find funding. They didn’t have the strength or skill. They’d die at sea. Did that many professional female sailors even exist?

Maiden is the story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

An encore screening of the hit summer documentary in celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Maiden’s doctor and crew member Dr. Claire Warren-Russell will host a Q&A after the film.

Sponsored by Athens Community Arts, Parks, & Recreation. Free admission!

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97 MIN

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While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.

QUEEN & SLIM will not show Monday, December 30th thru Wednesday, January 1st.

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133 MIN

The Mountain Minor is a realistic and heartwarming story about one person and his family that tells the story about the many people and families of Appalachia who left their homes in the 1920s-1950s and migrated to urban Midwestern centers to survive, most never to return to the land and life they loved. (Credit)

One night only, featuring pre-show music from Wright, Hamilton, Hoffman, and Beard and a post-show Q&A with director Dale Farmer! Admission $10.

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When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? This eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction uses incidents in which robots have caused the deaths of humans—from a Volkswagen factory in Germany to a bomb-carrying police droid in Dallas—as a window into global automation and its consequences. Though they are typically treated as freak anomalies, each case raises questions of accountability, legality and morality. Exploring the provocative views of engineers, journalists and philosophers, the film goes beyond sensational deaths to examine more subtle but pervasive ways that robots pose a threat to humanity.

Q&A with the filmmaker after the show.

One night only, free admission!

About the filmmaker:

Maxim Pozdorovkin (Director/Producer/Editor) is the director of five feature documentaries and multiple shorts. His films include Our New President (Sundance 2018 Jury Prize), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Sundance 2013 Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance 2014). His documentary Clinica de Migrantes (HBO) was nominated for a 2016 IDA award. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation about early propaganda. Next, Maxim is directing How To Rob Banks for Dummies, a hybrid documentary about cult video artist Joe Gibbons.

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83 MIN

During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on economic justice and helped to lead to the declaration of the War on Poverty. But the use of the striking images of poverty also raised questions about whether media-makers with otherwise good intentions exploited and perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Appalachia.

In 1967, this tension between media and community led to an extreme and tragic response, when eastern Kentuckian Hobart Ison shot and killed Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor, who was in the region to document conditions of poverty.

Stranger with a Camera revisits this tragedy as a way to examine the relationship between media-makers and the communities they portray in their work.

Free admission! Following the screening, please join us for a panel discussion about representation of Appalachia in the media.

This event is sponsored by the Appalachian Rural Health Institute, Athena Cinema, Center for Campus and Community Engagement, OHIO Honors program, and University Libraries.

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61 MIN

BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

Tickets to this event are free and come with one free small popcorn! Tickets are available at the box office the night of the show.

Sponsored by OHIO’s Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center, NAACP and Division of Diversity & Inclusion.

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108 MIN