Daisies

Daisies (Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak experimental surrealist comedy film written and directed by Věra Chytilová. The film follows two young women, both named Marie, as they engage in a series of bizarre and anarchic pranks.

The screening is part of Emergent Seas Film Club’s research series “Where is My Mind?” The series seeks to unravel “the particular madness of our time.” Each film screening is followed by a critical conversation. The events are open to all curious minds, but recommended for ages 15 and up.

Future Films

April 26: The Congress is a 2013 English-language French live-action/animated science-fiction drama film written and directed by Ari Folman, based on Stanisław Lem’s 1971 Polish science-fiction novel The Futurological Congress. It stars Robin Wright as a fictionalized version of herself who agrees to have a film studio use a digital clone of her in any film they want.

May 10: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. In the series, Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity and instead have “distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.” The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan.

May 24: Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, featuring music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow-motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States.

June 14: The Fifth Season (La Cinquième Saison) is a 2012 Belgian drama film directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth about a scenic Belgian village where nature is turning its back on man.

June 28: Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage) is a 1973 French-language experimental animated science fiction art film directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. The allegorical story about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.

July 12: Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is a 2000 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr and co-directed by Ágnes Hranitzky, based on the 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black-and-white and composed of 39 languidly paced shots, the film portrays the life of János and his uncle György during the communist era in Hungary.

July 26: Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled is a 2007 documentary by Stephanie Silber and Victor Zimet about post-modern nomad Poppa Neutrino as he roves the planet by land and sea, making up his life as he goes along.