Special Event
Body as Machine
5/1/2013–5/30/2013
Amelia Wood, 28, is a North Adams native who works in museum education at the Williams College Museum of Art. Her work is composed of found and manipulated items such as photographs, photocopies, and various recycled materials. Amelia finds her inspiration in human relationships, self identity, animals, the passage of time, and also through her work with children.
Amelia's most recent inspiration was spurred by her newfound passion for running and focuses on the adaptive abilities of the body. Body As Machine is a series of works that explores the physical, mental, and emotional experiences encountered during the training for her first marathon in May of 2013. Amelia is also fundraising throughout her training period, and all proceeds from Body As Machine will benefit Berkshire Community College's Mike Grogan Memorial Theater Scholarship and Mill City Production's Mike Grogan Memorial Fund.
Special Event
Cat Related Landscapes
6/1/2013–7/1/2013
Artist Reception: Claire Fox, Cat Related Landscapes — June 7, 2013 8:59 PM
Claire Fox is an artist who left the big city to live in the mountains. She earned a BFA in Illustration and a Masters in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts. She teaches art to special populations including veterans, BSI and UCS in Bennington with the Vermont Arts Exchange and also works with elementary school kids through IS 183. She lives in North Adams with her husband and two cats.
This series of ink and colored pencil drawings explores mental and theoretical landscapes. The spaces are fantastical, imaginary and strange. Color is used to define and distort space. The drawings are about travel into the mysterious. Cats float, hover and wait in suspension.
Film Series
Reunion Weekend
Saturday, June 8
Regular ticket prices apply; Admission for these films is free with a Reunion Weekend button;
Buzkashi Boys
Film followed by a Q&A with director Sam French
Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat – Buzkashi Boys is a ground-breaking narrative film about two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who strive to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot entirely on location in Kabul by an alliance of Afghan and international filmmakers, Buzkashi Boys is a heart-rending look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.
“Buzkashi Boys ends and all you want to say is “wow.” The film captures a culture rarely seen... ”
– Heartland Film Festival
ParaNorman in 3D
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kodi Smit-McPhee
In ParaNorman, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. BuBut this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
- Director: Chris Butler
- Rating: PG
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Genre: Animation
“ParaNorman is a micro-sized masterpiece that wears its heart (and its half-eaten brains) on its sleeve.”
– The Playlist
The Muppets
Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways.
- Director: James Bobin
- Rating: PG
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
“More fresh than retro, The Muppets bursts with charm and cheeky humor.”
– USA Today
Sponsored by Williams College Office of Alumni Relations
Special Showing
In Bed with Ulysses
Tuesday, June 11 at 5:30pm
In Bed with Ulysses tells the story behind the famous James Joyce novel, from it's inspiration, Norah Barnacle, to the struggle to get it published, and censorship of the book.
In Bed with Ulysses
In Bed with Ulysses tells the story behind the famous James Joyce novel, from it's inspiration, Norah Barnacle, to the struggle to get it published, and censorship of the book.
- Director: Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna
- Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
“Strips away the academic clutter surrounding that kaleidoscopic novel to reveal the vital human pulse between its lines. ”
– New York Times
Sponsored by Bloomsday in Williamstown.
Film Series
Family Flicks Under the Stars 2013
Sundays in July
At the top of Spring Street
Some Like it Hot
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Genre: Comedy
Ghost Busters
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
Four parapsychologists lose their jobs at Columbia University, so they set up shop in an old firehouse as a paranormal exterminators. It's just in time, too, because New York City is about to see an increase in paranormal activity!
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- Rating: PG
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Genre: Comedy
The Music Man
Starring: Meredith Wilson, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard
A con man comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan. Winner of an Oscar for Best Musical Score.
- Director: Morton DaCosta
- Runtime: 2 hours 31 minutes
- Genre: Musical
The Incredibles
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.- Director: Brad Bird
- Rating: PG
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Genre: Animation
