Private Joe Bowers (Wilson), the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program, set 545 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive. “There’s a good chance that Judge’s smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will […]
THE CONSTITUTION: A Film By Ohio University Eminent Scholar, Rajko Grlić
Back by popular demand, please join us for a special three-day run of Rajko Grlić’s THE CONSTITUTION. Following a sold out premiere in November, the Athena has brought back the film for a limited engagement. The film could not be more timely. Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other […]
Francophone Studies Presents: Jacques Tati’s PLAYTIME
Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every […]
Food on Film: SUSTAINABLE
America is facing a food crisis driven by profitability and a lack of consumer education. While the window to transforming our heartland continues to shrink, passionate individuals have emerged who provide hope that the health of our nation might still remain within our grasp. Sustainable is a documentary film that weaves together expert analysis of […]
PATERSON
Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; […]
HUNTER GATHERER
Ashley Douglas thinks everything should fall into place when he’s released after three years in prison. His friends should come to his welcome home party. (They don’t.) His girlfriend, Linda, should greet him with open arms and open legs. (She doesn’t.) So Ashley, a forty-something African-American, restarts his life with next to nothing: no friends, […]
Spring Sustainability Series: JUMBO WILD & MOVING THE GIANTS
Jumbo Wild Director: Nick Waggoner For decades, First Nations, conservationists, backcountry skiers and snowboarders have fought a proposed large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good? This film explores the value of protected wilderness and the […]
Spring Sustainability Series: ICE AND SKY
Drilling down the Antarctic icefields in the 1950’s, the former brought about a sweeping change in our vision of the world as they discovered the origins of climate change. Today, the latter offer new means for transforming man’s imprint on its environment. With Ice & Sky, Wild-Touch and Luc Jacquet travel back to the genesis […]
Sustainability Series: SONIC SEA, PANGOLIN, & MONARCH: THE MILKWEED MISSION
Sonic Sea Directors: Michelle Dougherty, Daniel Hinerfeld Sonic Sea is a 60-minute documentary about the devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. The film begins with a mystery: the unexplained stranding and mass mortality of several species of whales in the Bahamas in March 2000. As the mystery […]
Spring Sustainability Series: CATCHING THE SUN
Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, the film captures the global race to lead the clean energy future. Over the course of a solar jobs training program, the film follows the hope and heartbreak of unemployed American workers seeking jobs in the solar industry. With countries like China investing […]
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