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2019 OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER Program Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS

DREAM DANCE: THE ART OF ED EMSHWILLER 3-6

SPECIAL OUTDOOR SCREENING 7

LOUIS BLUVER’S ARTHOUSE REVISITED 7

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1 2 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 Saturday, October 19 at 8pm FREEDOM MARCH PROGRAM TWO Ed Emshwiller, US, 1963, 16mm, 9 min., color INTRODUCED BY HERB Rarely screened short film of the historic SHELLENBERGER THE ART OF 1963 march on Washington D.C. IMAGE, FLESH AND Preserved by Anthology Film Archives VOICE Special thanks to NYU’s Orphans Film Ed Emshwiller, US, 1969, 16mm, 77 min., b/w Symposium This is a film about Images (visual and psychological), Flesh (sensuality), Friday, October 25 at 7pm Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is the first major monographic exhibition and Voice (as a revelation and as PROGRAM FOUR of the artist’s groundbreaking work in film, video, and visual art. With an immensely a textural element in the film). The diverse body of creative work, Ed Emshwiller (1925-90) is perhaps one of the HALLELUJAH THE HILLS pictures range back and forth from the Adolfas Mekas, US, 1963, 35mm, 80 min., b/w most significant yet under-recognized artists of the latter half of the 20th completely spontaneous to very formal century. Emshwiller’s career spanned abstract expressionist painting, commercial choreography. It is a non-story-telling A farcical, experimental slapstick illustration, film, video and computer art, and collaborations with dancers, feature film, a structured interplay of comedy set in the woods of Vermont. choreographers, and composers. Dream Dance includes the preservation of two sound, image, and sensual tensions. -EE Jack and Leo both pine for the love of of Emshwiller’s earliest films, Dance Chromatic (1959) and Lifelines (1960), which Vera, but their sophomoric antics get the Preceded by: will be screened at Lightbox along with 19 of his other films—some of which have best of them as does the brutish Gideon, never been publicly presented in Philadelphia—as well as notable films by other GEORGE DUMPSON’S played by Ed Emshwiller, who ultimately filmmakers for which he served as cinematographer. A concurrent exhibition at the PLACE wins over Vera. Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery highlights Emshwiller’s visual and fine art background, Ed Emshwiller, US, 1964, 16mm, 8 min., color Courtesy of Pola Chapelle including video works, early paintings, notes, sketches, ephemera, and many George Dumpson was a scavenger. Preceded by: early science fiction cover paintings. Dream Dance is a full scale investigation of He put together what things he could the artist’s legacy, presenting his multidisciplinary oeuvre to a new generation of in such a way as to satisfy some inner THE EXISTENTIALIST Leon Prochnik, US, 1964, 16mm, 8 min., b/w audiences. need, just as I had to make this picture A walk through the city where Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is curated by Jesse Pires, Chief Curator. of him and his place. -EE Preserved by Anthology Film Archives everything is not as it seems. Saturday, October 19 at 6pm LIFELINES with support from the National Film PROGRAM ONE Ed Emshwiller, US, 1960, 16mm, 7 min., color Preservation Foundation Friday, November 1 at 7pm PROGRAM FIVE FREE ADMISSION Animated line drawings engage in a Thursday, October 24 at 7pm FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION INCLUDES A CONVERSATION playful pas de deux with a nude model. BETWEEN SAMUEL R. DELANY AND BETWEEN LIGHTBOX CHIEF Preserved through a collaboration PROGRAM THREE ED HALTER CURATOR JESSE PIRES, PETER between Anthology Film Archives and FREE ADMISSION “STONEY” EMSHWILLER, AND SUSAN Lightbox Film Center THE QUIET TAKEOVER EMSHWILLER, FOLLOWED BY A POST- Jack Willis, Canada, 1963, 60 min., b/w RELATIVITY Ed Emshwiller, US, 1966, 16mm, 38 min., color SCREENING OPENING RECEPTION THANATOPSIS Produced for CBC Television, Jack Willis’ Ed Emshwiller, US, 1962, 16mm, 6 min., b/w The Quiet Takeover examines the rise Emshwiller’s poetic meditation on time, of computers in the workplace. During space, and the natural world could be DANCE CHROMATIC Time exposures created images of Ed Emshwiller, US, 1959, 16mm, 7 min., color the shoot, Emshwiller collected footage viewed as an extension of his practice as a flickering, vibrating woman who is that would ultimately be used in his film a science fiction illustrator, yetRelativity Images of a young woman are double juxtaposed with an immobile man. -EE Relativity. goes well beyond the realm of fiction in exposed in camera with animated Preserved by Anthology Film Archives abstract paintings. -EE Preceded by: its quest to understand the universe and Preserved through a collaboration our place in it. CAROL THE STREETS OF Preserved by Anthology Film Archives between Anthology Film Archives and Ed Emshwiller, US, 1970, 16mm, 5 min., color Lightbox Film Center GREENWOOD with support from the National Film Jack Willis, US, 1963, 16mm, 20 min., b/w This elegant film portrait of Carol Preservation Foundation TRANSFORMATION Emshwiller uses images from a forest A short documentary about the efforts Ed Emshwiller, US, 1959, 16mm, 5 min., color – trees shimmering in the sunlight – to of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating PROJECT APOLLO frame its subject. Committee (SNCC) to register voters in Ed Emshwiller, US, 1968, 30 min., color The pointillist score accompanies Preserved by Anthology Film Archives rural Mississippi. The film is a remarkable An unconventional documentary on changing line, form, and color to create document of the civil rights era in the the Apollo space program, Project an animated film painting, achieved southern U.S. Apollo was made for the United States through the exploration of spontaneous Print courtesy of Washington University Information Agency in 1968. abstractions. -EE in St. Louis Preserved by Anthology Film Archives Special thanks to Dan Streible 3 4 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 Thursday, November 21 at 7pm Preceded by: PROGRAM TEN CHOICE CHANCE INTRODUCED BY TERRY FOX WOMAN DANCE CHRYSALIS Ed Emshwiller, US, 1971, 44 min., color THE ART OF Ed Emshwiller, US, 1973, 16mm, 22 min., color An ambitious attempt to synthesize Dancers coming from a black void the experiences of several women move in slow, normal, and rapid motion. as a way of understanding the world They pass through a series of violent, from a woman’s perspective. A highly humorous, and strange states, emerging stylized, experimental documentary Thursday, November 14 at 7pm Preceded by: in a form of rebirth. -EE that showcases Emshwiller’s unique PROGRAM SIX WOE OH HO NO approach to storytelling. TIME OF THE HEATHEN Ed Emshwiller, US 1972, 13 min., color FILM WITH THREE Peter Kass, US, 1961, 16mm, 75 min., b/w Collaboratively produced at Wantagh DANCERS Thursday, December 5 at 7pm Rarely screened since its debut, Time High School in New York, Woe Oh Ho Ed Emshwiller, US, 1970, 16mm, 20 min., color PROGRAM TWELVE of the Heathen is an atmospheric No ventures into the unconscious mind Three dancers are seen in different FREE ADMISSION examination of cold war trauma and of the average student. ways. They reveal themselves, their INCLUDES A CONVERSATION WITH racial tensions in America. In addition to aesthetics, their method of working TED GORDON, JOAN LABARBARA, his role as cinematographer, Emshwiller Saturday, November 16 at 5pm together. -EE MARIA MURPHY, AND MORTON constructed the disturbing color PROGRAM EIGHT SUBOTNICK, FOLLOWED BY A POST- SCREENING CLOSING RECEPTION sequence at the end of the film. PILOBOLUS AND JOAN FUSION Courtesy of Sam Kass Ed Emshwiller, US, 1973, 58 min., color Ed Emshwiller, US, 1967, 16mm, 16 min., color HUNGERS Preceded by: Based on Metamorphosed by Carol A cine-dance film sponsored by Springs Ed Emshwiller, US, 1988, 29 min., color SCRAMBLES Emshwiller (a reversal of Kafka’s The Mills to promote a new line of towels Ed Emshwiller, US, 1963, 16mm, 15 min., b/w Metamorphosis). A cockroach wakes up designed by Pucci. Dancers throw, move A collaboration with composer as a four-man-being, falls in love with through, dance with, and are draped in a Morton Subotnick, the sprawling, A document of a motorcycle race in all multidisciplinary theatrical production its fast-paced, explosive glory. a girl, and proceeds to encounter the variety of designer towels. -EE human world. -EE Courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Dance Hungers featured film, video, and Preceded by: computer generated images along with Preceded by: Division, The New York Public Library FILM MAGAZINE OF THE for the Performing Arts dance, electronic and acoustic music, SCAPE-MATES and voice. Emshwiller described the ARTS Ed Emshwiller, US, 1972, 16mm, 28 min., color Jonas Mekas, US, 1963, 16mm, 20 min., color work as “expressing hungers (i.e. for Scape-mates is a videotape which TOTEM food, security, acceptance, the child With camera assistance from Ed Ed Emshwiller, US, 1963, 16mm, 16 min., color combines dancers with an environment for mother).” This broadcast version, Emshwiller, Jonas Mekas captures New made by computer animation. All A filmic interpretation by Emshwiller of created for PBS, is a glimpse of the full York’s vibrant arts scene. elements go through rapid and the ballet Totem by Alwin Nikolais. A performance from the stage to behind

radical transformations, ending in an cine-dance in which the choreography the scenes. Friday, November 15 at 7pm architectural maze before disintegration. often comes as much from camera PROGRAM SEVEN -EE movement and film editing as from the REPORT dancers. -EE A concurrent gallery exhibition is on Jean-Bernard Bucky and Robert Peyton, US, view from October 18 – December 7 1970, 16mm, 60 min., b/w Saturday, November 16 at 8pm PROGRAM NINE Wednesday, December 4 at 7pm at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the One of several film projects related to PROGRAM ELEVEN University of the Arts. Emshwiller’s time as Film Advisor and BRANCHES Ed Emshwiller, US, 1970, 16mm, 102 min., b/w FAMILY FOCUS lightboxfilmcenter.org/dreamdance Cinematographer at UC Berkeley in Ed Emshwiller, US, 1975, 58 min., color 1968. Report is a chronical of Norman Featuring Bill Weidner and Connie Brady, Branches was made in a Family Focus is an Emshwiller Jacobson’s attempt to conduct an family self-portrait, a stylized group experimental class called “Toward the filmmaking workshop at Cornell University during the summer of 1970. autobiography. It was recorded for Expression of the Idea of Freedom.” the most part with a black and white Courtesy of Jean-Bernard Bucky The film was improvised around the theme of branches of possibilities real video porta-pac over a span of a year Dream Dance: The Art Preceded by: or imagined in Bill’s pursuit of Connie. and a half. It is documentary/video art of Ed Emshwiller has IDENTITIES It is an attempt to structure a film out transformation of self-revealing images, been supported by The Ed Emshwiller, US, 1973, 16mm, 10 min., color of the concerns of the time, using the a playful ironic tape. -EE Pew Center for Arts & One of two short films created with college environment and student sexual Heritage. Wantagh High School students. drives as the principle focus. -EE 5 6 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 SPECIAL OUTDOOR SCREENING Friday, October 4 at 7pm THE WOODLANDS “HOLLYWOODLANDS” ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Frank Capra, US, 1944, 118 min., b/w Mortimer Brewster returns to his childhood home to share news of his recent engagement with his eccentric aunts, Abby and Martha, who raised him. Upon learning their dark secret, Mortimer desperately tries to keep his fiancé in the dark while the situation becomes more and more harrowing. Frank Capra’s adaptation of the hit 1941 Broadway play is a hilariously Please note this free outdoor screening takes place at The Woodlands at 4000 macabre farce starring Cary Grant as Woodland Ave, Philadelphia, in front of the charmingly besieged Mortimer. the Hamilton Mansion.

LOUIS BLUVER’S ARTHOUSE REVISITED Thursday, October 10 at 7pm Friday, November 22 at 7pm THE CREMATOR DOWNTOWN 81 Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia, 1969, 95 min. Edo Bertoglio, US, 1981/2000, 72 min. A rising political death cult entangles NEW RESTORATION with personal morbidity in Juraj Herz’s A time capsule of New York’s downtown deeply disturbing black comic parable art and music scenes, Downtown 81 The Cremator, set in 1930s Prague, follows Jean-Michel Basquiat playing where Nazi ideology hangs in the air a struggling artist as he meanders as thick as the charnel fumes over through the streets of Manhattan. the crematorium run by the troubled Unfinished at the time of his death, Karel Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský in a the film was completed in 2000 with skin-crawling performance). Adapting poet/musician Saul Williams providing Ladislav Fuks’ novel with the author Basquiat’s voiceover narration. Filled and utilizing the estimable talents of with performances by such legendary cinematographer Stanislav Milota, Herz No Wave bands as DNA, James White connects the Czechoslovak New Wave and the Blacks, and the Plastics, the film groundswell to the legacy of German captures an exciting moment in New Expressionism in this macabre and York City’s history that has long since harrowing work of psychological and passed. social breakdown, banned after its 1969 debut only to re-emerge and garner OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER deserved praise as a masterwork twenty years later after the crumbling of the Czechoslovak communist system. OF LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER A Janus Films release. New digital restoration undertaken by Karlovy Vary IFF, UPP and Soundsquare in collaboration with the National Film 3549 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA Archive and the State Film Fund. Made possible by a generous donation from SHERATONUNIVERSITYCITY.COM Mr. and Mrs. Kučera.

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DEPARTMENT, COLORADO Israeli reality from both sides of the AUTHOR, IN CONVERSATION WITH COLLEGE Monday, November 11 at 7pm Green Line. EMILY WILSON, PROFESSOR OF NO! THE RAPE GERSHMAN PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF DOCUMENTARY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Sunday, October 6 at 12pm PENNSYLVANIA THE KEEPER EXHUMED FILMS ANNIVERSARY Marcus H. Rosenmüller, UK/Germany, 2018, In her seventh novel Home Fire, PRESENTATION 120 min., English and German w/ English Join cult movie cooperative Exhumed Shamsie considers family, nation, and subtitles Films for a full day of classic genre faith in today’s age of terror against Fall 2019 marks the 25th anniversary PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE cinema! the backdrop of Sophocles’ tragedy of the first pre-production meeting for Antigone. Joining Ms. Shamsie will be the internationally acclaimed film,NO! The Keeper tells the incredible true Saturday, October 26 at 12pm – Penn Classical Studies Professor Emily The Rape Documentary. Produced and story of Bert Trautmann, a German Sunday, October 27 at 12pm Wilson, whose poetic translation of directed by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, soldier and prisoner of war who, against EXHUMED FILMS Homer’s Odyssey illuminates family and NO! broke taboos that hid the rape a backdrop of British post-war protest HORROR-THON PART social relationships in this ancient text. and sexual assault of Black women in and prejudice, secured the position Black communities. This screening will of goalkeeper at Manchester City to XIII: THE FINAL CUT! be the first time many of the on-screen become a football icon. His signing To celebrate the joyous Halloween participants will be in attendance caused outrage to thousands of fans, season, Exhumed Films proudly together and available to participate many of them Jewish. Yet Bert receives presents the thirteenth annual 24 Hour with Aishah in the Q&A following the support from an unexpected direction: Horror-thon: a full 24 hour marathon screening. Rabbi Alexander Altmann, who fled the Nazis. 11 12 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 Wednesday, November 13 at 7pm Thursday, November 7 – Sunday, WOLF HUMANITIES CENTER November 10 SUPPORT LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER I CANNOT TELL YOU PHILADELPHIA ASIAN As the public arts program of a non-profit institution, Lightbox relies HOW I FEEL AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL on the generous support of its members, donors, and funding partners. Su Friedrich, US, 2016, 42 min. PAAFF is the largest film festival on the FREE ADMISSION East Coast dedicated to celebrating and elevating the Asian American & Pacific BECOME A MEMBER TODAY Acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich takes Islander experience through film and a us inside her family’s uncharted world of host of other creative mediums. PAAFF When you join our independent, nonprofit theater, you gain access to hundreds of aging and severe memory loss. Writes 2019 will feature over 50 film screenings, events each year, ranging from film screenings and live performances to artist talks and Friedrich, “When my brother, sister, and speaker panels, live performances, and receptions. You engage with a passionate community of cinephiles, celebrating the I found ourselves in that place with our other special events. Join Lightbox for projected image as a framework for diverse ideas and perspectives. And you have the mother. . . our response was to totally select screenings throughout the 11-day reward of knowing that at a challenging moment for arts funding you’ve invested in freak out, realize we had no idea what festival’s opening weekend. our innovative programming, making it accessible to audiences now and in the future. needed to be done, and then scramble desperately to figure out which steps to To join, visit lightboxfilmcenter.org/become-a-member take when.” Friday, December 6 – Sunday, December 8 SU FRIEDRICH IN ATTENDANCE PENN CINEMA & MEDIA Thank you to David Haas for supporting Lightbox Film Center at the Avant-Garde STUDIES membership level. Wednesday, November 20 at 5pm WOLF HUMANITIES CENTER NEW ITALIAN CINEMA BECOME A SUPPORTER #DEAFTRAVEL 2019 A FREE ADMISSION FILM FESTIVAL Every year Lightbox Film Center curates upwards of 125 film and video art programs, FREE ADMISSION MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE numerous partner series, and many special events. We can’t do it without you. AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEAF TOURIST SUPPORT OF NEW ITALIAN CINEMA MOBILITIES, PRESENTED BY ERIN EVENTS. To support Lightbox, visit lightboxfilmcenter.org/donate MORIARTY HARRELSON, ASSISTANT Penn Cinema & Media Studies, in PROFESSOR OF DEAF STUDIES, Thank you to Louis Bluver for his continued support of the Arthouse Revisited series. collaboration with the Consulate GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, CO- General of Italy in Philadelphia, presents SPONSORED BY PENN’S AMERICAN ACADEMIC PARTNERS the 2019 edition of New Italian Cinema. SIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, The festival has been curated by DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS Philadelphia-area schools can join our Academic Partnership program, providing an Nicola M. Gentili and aims at showing interactive film education for students across the region. For more information, email Harrelson will discuss deaf tourist very recent Italian released films in Sarah Christy, Managing Director, at [email protected]. practices and the moralities that Philadelphia. have been built around the deaf Thank you to the Romance Languages Department at the University of Pennsylvania global circuit, showing clips from her Monday, December 9 at 7pm ethnographic film as part of her 2018 and the Film Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College for joining as Academic Partners. PENN CINEMA & MEDIA fieldwork in Bali. Reception to follow. STUDIES Lightbox Film Center is supported in part by the National Endowment for Sunday, October 20 at 4pm INLAND SEA the Arts; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the (MINATOMACHI) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a PHILLYCAM AND WPPM Kazuhiro Soda, Japan, 2018, 122 min. federal agency; the Philadelphia Cultural Fund; the Wyncote Foundation; the 106.5 FM Forsaken by the era of modernization of Joseph Robert Foundation; an Anonymous Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation; CAMMY AWARDS post-war Japan, the town of Ushimado Republic Bank; Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; Celebrate People Powered Media at the is rapidly aging and declining. Its Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation; and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 3rd Annual Cammy Awards! This live rich, ancient culture and the tight- awards show recognizes the PhillyCAM knit community are also on the verge and WPPM 106.5 FM television and of disappearing. Portrayed in black radio shows that best demonstrate and white photography, this latest the community-produced media of observational documentary by Kazuhiro Philadelphia. Red Carpet Reception at Soda (Campaign, Mental, Oyster 4:00 PM, 10-year Anniversary Kickoff Factory) poetically depicts the twilight Cocktail Hour at 5:00 PM, Live simulcast days of a village and its people by the to cable TV and live stream at 6:00 PM. dreamlike Inland Sea. KAZUHIRO SODA IN ATTENDANCE 13 14 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 Thursday, October 24 at 7pm Saturday, November 16 at 8pm OCTOBER Dream Dance - Program Three Dream Dance - Program Nine STAFF p. 4 p. 5 Tuesday, October 1 at 6:30pm Sarah Christy We Tell: 50 Years of Participatory Managing Director Friday, October 25 at 7pm Monday, November 18 at 7pm Community Media - Program 1 Dream Dance - Program Four The Passengers Jesse Pires p. 11 p. 4 p. 12 Chief Curator

Tuesday, October 1 at 8:30pm Saturday, October 26 at 12pm – Wednesday, November 20 at 5pm Patrick DiGiacomo We Tell: 50 Years of Participatory Sunday, October 27 at 12pm #Deaftravel Programs & Membership Manager Community Media - Program 2 Horror-thon Part XIII: The Final Cut! p. 13 p. 11 Robert E. Cargni p. 12 Theater & Galleries Manager Thursday, November 21 at 7pm Friday, October 4 at 7pm Thursday, October 31 at 6pm Dream Dance - Program Ten The Woodlands “HollyWoodlands” James Fraatz NO! The Rape Documentary p. 6 Technical Manager Arsenic and Old Lace Anniversary Presentation p. 7 p. 11 Friday, November 22 at 7pm Sarah Mueller Downtown 81 Conference Center & Events Saturday, October 5 at 7pm Manager p. 7 Army of Lovers in the Holy Land p. 11 NOVEMBER Julio Perez Jr. Graphic Designer Friday, November 1 at 7pm DECEMBER Sunday, October 6 at 12pm Dream Dance - Program Five Aaron Immediato Exhumed Films p. 4 Monday, December 2 at 7pm Lightbox Marketing Manager p. 12 Unsettling Thursday, November 7 – p. 12 Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm Sunday, November 10 La Région Centrale Philadelphia Asian American Film Tuesday, December 3 at 7pm p. 12 Festival Precious Places p. 13 p. 11 Thursday, October 10 at 7pm The Cremator Monday, November 11 at 7pm Wednesday, December 4 at 7pm p. 7 The Keeper Dream Dance - Program Eleven p. 11 p. 6 Wednesday, October 16 at 5pm Who Belongs at Home? Wednesday, November 13 at 7pm Thursday, December 5 at 7pm p. 12 I Cannot Tell You How I Feel Dream Dance - Program Twelve p. 13 p. 6 Saturday, October 19 at 2pm Mary Poppins Thursday, November 14 at 7pm Friday, December 6 – p. 9 Dream Dance - Program Six Sunday, December 8 p. 5 New Italian Cinema 2019 Saturday, October 19 at 6pm p. 13 Dream Dance - Program One Friday, November 15 at 7pm p. 3 Dream Dance - Program Seven Saturday, December 7 at 2pm p. 5 Okko’s Inn Saturday, October 19 at 8pm p. 9 Dream Dance - Program Two Saturday, November 16 at 2pm p. 4 Kubo and the Two Strings Monday, December 9 at 7pm p. 9 Inland Sea (Minatomachi) Sunday, October 20 at 4pm p. 13 Cammy Awards Saturday, November 16 at 5pm p. 13 Dream Dance - Program Eight p. 5 15 16 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 WELCOME TO LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER

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Lightbox Film Center is Philadelphia’s premier exhibitor of film and moving image art. The signature arts program of International House Philadelphia, an independent nonprofit organization, Lightbox presents an unparalleled slate of repertory, nonfiction, experimental and international cinema. Beyond the traditional movie theater experience, Lightbox delivers enriching film programs with artist talks, live music and other multidisciplinary programs.