Art/Lit

Plays with Night Fishing.

Director Wang Hong Hai Present

Work-in-Progress Screening | Filmmakers Present! | FREE

This documentary follows eccentric and charismatic mixed media artist and body painter Jacob as he pursues his dream of building an art gallery that doubles as an underground party space in downtown Minneapolis. Experience the many difficulties and meet the collection of characters Jacob encounters while attempting his ultimate creation.

Filmmakers Present!

6 Dancers + 6 Choreographers = 6 Extraordinary Dances. The partnership between dancers and their choreographers as they create Solos serves as a background for unique portraits of these artists. Who they are, the toll the quest for perfection takes upon their bodies, and the very process of dance itself are explored in this enthralling documentary.

Directors Gordon Quinn & Bob Hercules Present

Directors Gordon Quinn and Bob Hercules present a rare glimpse into the mind of a working artist in this documentary following the Tony Award–winning choreographer and 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree, Bill T. Jones, and his company as they develop and perform their most ambitious project to date, the multimedia dance-theatre work, Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray.

A lush costume drama chronicling the early formative years of Germany’s most famous literary genius.   

What does it take to become the next world-class opera star? Watch as 500 young international talents audition for the prestigious Opera Studio, a master class at the world-renowned Bavarian State Opera, with General Music Director Kent Nagano.

Director Jon Foy  Present

TOYNBEE IDEA, IN MOVIE 2001, RESURRECT DEAD, ON PLANET JUPITER

This film is an impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters.

Photographer Alec Soth Present

A fascinating look at those few Americans who truly want to disappear, European filmmakers Laure Flammarion and Arnaud Uyttenhove’s gorgeous documentary follows renowned Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth on his search for the reclusive.