International Lens Film Series

Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2016 in Archives, News.

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Part of the film series Revolution & Realism, based on the exhibition The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film, on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts through July 4, 2016

Tuesday, March 22

Presented by: Jason Strudler, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian.
USSR (1924) Dir: Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov.

Described as one of the first science-fiction films, Aelita chronicles an adventurer-s journey to Mars where he leads an uprising alongside a beautiful and seductive queen. Showcases spectacular sets and costumes influenced by the Russian Constructivist movement. Silent with English meta-titles. No rating. 111 minutes.Blu-ray.

Presented in collaboration with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, the Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Belcourt Theatre, and Third Man Record

Selma

Wednesday, March 23
Presented by: Vanessa Beasley, Dean of the Martha River Ingram Commons

and Associate Professor of Communications;

and Mona Frederick, Executive Director of the Robert Penn Warren

Center for the Humanities.
USA (2014) Dir: Ava DuVernay.

Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. English. Rated PG-13. 129 minutes. Blu-ray.

Presented in collaboration with the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.