“Be realistic, demand the impossible!” Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism

Rare images, intimate footage, and experimental filmmaking explore the legacies of Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright, two crucially influential anti-colonialist thinkers of the 20th century.

From the life cycle of a single tomato to a spoiled pair of sisters’ smash-it-all rebellion, what role does food play in revolt, dissent, and societal inequality?

Political documentary luminaries Chris Marker and Dziga Vertov interrogate urban life, colonialism, art, and the camera itself through cinematic subversion.

This Oscar-winning film from absurdist auteur Luis Buñuel takes aim at French high society as an elegant dinner party slips down a series of surreal rabbit holes.

Chris Marker’s epic film essay traces the rise and fall of leftist revolutions across the globe in a politically dynamic and visually intoxicating cinematic collage.

Luis Buñuel mercilessly mocks the idea of normalcy in this audacious surrealist fantasia.

An ageless young man walks through history, poverty, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film by renowned Indian director Mrinal Sen.

An ageless young man walks through history, poverty, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film by renowned Indian director Mrinal Sen.

Jean-Luc Godard’s radical 1967 satire La Chinoise screens alongside a video art piece that uses it as a jumping off point.

Two radical film collectives—the Otolith Group and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos—offer video meditations on nature, violence, and revolution through visually textured, multimedia footage.

Based on a text by Guy Debord and a song by Lena Horne, these films repurpose existing footage to provide sharp commentaries on the relationship between images and power.

This poetic account of social upheaval and political corruption is a pillar of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement.