Watch films at your leisure in advance and then join the free virtual discussions led by Shannon Skelton, Assistant Professor at K-State School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
All virtual discussions are free and open to the public. Email questions at beachart@k-state.edu or sbskelton@k-state.edu
Part of the Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art in Motion’ annual program series.
December 1, 2021, 7:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)
Virtual Discussion on Mahānagar (The Big City, মহানগর)
(1963 India)
Director: Satyajit Ray
Streaming: Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max (free with subscription), Apple TV, Amazon
2021 marks the centenary of the late Indian cinema master Satyajit Ray. Ray’s classic Mahānagar (The Big City) focuses on the noisy, cluttered world of modern urban life, where everyday people attempt to find meaning in a world where modernity and tradition seek co-existence. Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.
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October 6, 2021, 7:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)
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October 20, 2021, 7:30 p.m. Central Time (US and Canada)
Revisit the “silenced” voices of woman directors in films by Dorothy Davenport, Lois Weber and Mabel Normand. Davenport’s melodrama Linda (1929) follows a young woman from a forced marriage to her discovery of true love. The short Suspense (1913) by Lois Weber chronicles a pre-Hitchcockian style home invasion, while Mabel Normand directs Charlie Chaplin in the comedic Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914).