Get ready for a night of glitz and glamour at the Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival Awards Celebration! Join us as we recognize the exceptional achievements of our local student filmmakers in a red-carpet showcase. Arrive early to walk the red carpet, then, enjoy a selection of student films up on the big screen...
One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the...
Upper Jay Art Center is proud to be partnering with Keene Diversity Advisory Committee (KDAC) to offer this screening of Shades Inside the Blueline, a documentary film by local filmmaker Michael Hansen. Shades Inside the Blueline is a documentary which examines attitudes about race in New York’s Adirondack region, and the historic and current cultural...
At Lake Flower Landing, 421 Lake Flower Avenue, Saranac Lake NY, 7 pm preceded by pizza. Followed by Q&A with the film's director and musician Mat Callahan.
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards!...
Shades Inside the Blueline explores various views about race and racism in the Adirondacks, a region with largely homogeneous communities that are not often forced to examine their beliefs and perspectives around race. The film shares personal stories from minorities explaining the racism they've experienced in the region but also explores plans to help the...
The Quiet Epidemic explores a long, divisive medical debate, focusing on a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist who is diagnosed with a disease said not to exist: Chronic Lyme disease. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease, dating back to its discovery...
One of the top 3 silent-film comedians along with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd will forever be associated with SAFETY LAST because of a single shot that is one of the most celebrated images in cinema: a bespectacled man hanging off the hands of a collapsing clock on the side of a skyscraper,...
Film showing of the family film Chicken Run. This engaging, stop-motion, clay animation allegorical adventure story tells the tale of an American rooster (Rocky) who falls in love with a gorgeous hen (Ginger) on a British farm. Rocky and Ginger decide to run away from the farm that confines them, but they must first contend...
Film showing of Without a Whisper - Konnon: Kwe with the filmmaker, Katsitsionni Fox. This film uncovers the hidden history of the profound influence Indigenous women had on the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Before the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, European colonial women lacked even...
You are invited to special opportunity to see a work in progress about the documentary Russell Banks: I Write in Order to be a Better Person by John Brown Lives and Adirondack film Society This will be a rare engagement with the filmmaker Denis Mueller who has been working on this film for the past...
This PBS documentary offers an intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life, examining how such a closed and communal culture has thrived within one of the most open, individualistic societies on Earth. What does the future hold for a community whose existence is so rooted in the past? And what does our fascination with...
