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Dean Otto currently serves as the Curator of Film. To learn more about Dean and the Speed Cinema, read the full press release here. Photo by Rafael Gamo.
Speed Cinema entrance update: Our South Cinema entrance has reopened for all Cinema guests! Follow the Speed Cinema signs while exiting the Museum garage to the entrance while enjoying a small part of the Art Park that is now open.
Kusama: Infinity
Monthly, July - December
Inspired by the 1960s American political and social revolutions, Kusama’s avant-garde innovation garnered notoriety but little fame or success as she pioneered audacious and unprecedented soft sculptures, staged nude Vietnam protests, and fashioned dazzling polka-dot creations. After working as an artist for over six decades, people around the globe are experiencing her installation Infinity Mirrored Rooms in record numbers, as Kusama continues to create new work every day.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room: LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER on view July 12, 2024-January 12, 2025
The People's Joker
July 24
This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of UCB Live – a government-sanctioned late-night sketch show in a world where comedy has been outlawed.
2024 Flyover Film Festival
July 25 – 28
The 14th annual Flyover Film Festival kicks off at the Speed Cinema from July 25-28. Presented by the Louisville Film Society and the Speed Cinema, this year’s lineup features a vibrant mix of indie gems, insightful documentaries, and captivating short films. Many of the screenings will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers.
CatVideoFest 2024
August 2, 3, 4, 7, & 8
The world's number one cat video festival is back with screenings in theaters across the USA and around the world starting August 2024!
Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2024, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Robot Dreams
August 9, 10, & 11
In the Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams, Spanish director Pablo Berger (Blancanieves, Torremolinos 73) has lovingly adapted Sara Varon’s charming and quirky graphic novel set in 1980s New York. The film plays like an engaging silent film as characters from different worlds negotiate a relationship that requires patience, endurance, and sacrifice.
August 9 CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with graphic novelist Sara Varon who wrote and illustrated Robot Dreams upon which the film is based.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
August 16 & 17
Directed by two-time BAFTA and Emmy® winning David Hinton, this is Martin Scorsese’s personal and moving look at two of British cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Producing, writing, and directing, Powell and Pressburger created some of great classics of the British golden age including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. In the words of Scorsese their films were “grand, poetic, wise, adventurous, headstrong, enraptured by beauty, deeply romantic, and completely uncompromising”. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is an unparalleled exploration of their genius.
Peeping Tom
August 17 & 18
Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions.
My Morning Jacket: Okonokos
August 22
Okonokos encapsulates Louisville’s My Morning Jacket at a peak moment in their career. The new 4K version of the acclaimed 2006 live concert film captures an electrifying 2 hour performance from the band’s November 2005 two-night stand at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, mixed in 5.1 audio.
The Red Shoes
August 23 & 24
The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection.
Black Narcissus
August 24 & 25
This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. A group of nuns—played by some of Britain’s finest actresses, including Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, and Flora Robson—struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
2024 Sundance Short Film Tour
August 30, 31, & September 1
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. Considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers, the Festival includes fiction, documentary, and animation projects from around the world.