FILM SCHEDULE

• Pass the Gravy (1928) (23 min)
  • When the children of two rival fathers get engaged, the families are forced to come together. But peace doesn’t last long after one father’s prized rooster accidentally ends up as the main course at a family dinner, sparking a hilarious clash between the two households.
• Two Tars (1928) (21 min)
  • Laurel and Hardy star as two sailors on shore leave whose day quickly spirals into chaos after they rent a car and become caught in an increasingly ridiculous traffic jam. What begins as a simple outing turns into a classic slapstick battle of tempers, destruction, and comic one-upmanship.
• The Scarecrow (1920) (19 min)
  • Buster Keaton stars in this inventive silent comedy about two farmhands who share a highly unusual home, where both fall for the farmer’s daughter. Their romantic rivalry leads to a fast-paced series of clever gags, mishaps, and classic Keaton chaos.

• East Side, West Side (1927) (92 min)
  • After losing his mother in a tragic accident, John Breen remains in New York determined to find the father who abandoned his family. His journey takes him from the streets and boxing ring into the world of wealth and privilege, while love, ambition, and family secrets pull him between the city’s East and West Sides.

• A Pair of Tights (1929) (20 min)
  • A simple stop for ice cream turns into a full-blown comic disaster when two young women encounter swinging doors, troublesome bystanders, and one mishap after another. What should be a quick errand becomes an increasingly ridiculous struggle to make it back to the car.
• The Navigator (1924) (59 min)
  • Buster Keaton stars as a wealthy young man who accidentally becomes stranded aboard an empty ocean liner with the woman he hopes to marry. Left to fend for themselves at sea, the pair stumble through a series of inventive mishaps as they try to survive life aboard the massive ship.

TICKETS

Individual Film Tickets: Member Price: $15 / Non-member Price: $18

Day Pass: Member Price: $45 / Non-member Price: $55

BIMA’s PRISM programming is where art comes alive, off the walls and onto the stage. From films and concerts to artist talks and community celebrations, PRISM expands what it means to be an art museum through regular, engaging live events on BIMA’s stage, in its galleries, and outside the museum.

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BIMA’s PRISM programming is where art comes alive, off the walls and onto the stage. From films and concerts to artist talks and community celebrations, PRISM expands what it means to be an art museum through regular, engaging live events on BIMA’s stage, in its galleries, and outside the museum.

I think about, have thought over, the multiplicities of migrations within and without, wherein one anticipates the unknown distance a body must travel into order to transform, be transformed by time. Hence, the migratory impulse of a moment in which movement begins even before this body willingly, unwillingly steps upon that road we define as art. In the making, one eye is bound to variations of hue, multitudinous sounds and textures that teach each finger how to see gradations of life among the living. While the other binds me to what I dare not wish to see, but like the inebriated stumbling across a sidewalk in a city rife with unseemly scenes, hopefully, to be unremembered but nevertheless caught between pupil and lid, the eye may close but the seen is kept, kept in mind for some future purpose yet to be defined. Time lines the distances a mind must travel dragging the surly flesh step-by-step over hill and vale. Time unwinds, with the urgent urgency of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the dead, once more, to rise. In every disguise, time pushes forward while looking back/keeps goin’ round/round/up/down following glowing orbs that light night, blaze day, open/close the way/the way forward/back to that beginning/for at the end a future’s tense awaits. Thus, this journey across waves of days rushes forward surges back Into depths of lightless nights. In that there, the longing of centuries, come and gone, glistens in the hour glass of the past. Here on the see-side, on the sure shore of breaking day they arrive once more alive among the living to tell, do tell, from whence and, once where, they came.

BIMA’s PRISM programming is where art comes alive, off the walls and onto the stage. From films and concerts to artist talks and community celebrations, PRISM expands what it means to be an art museum through regular, engaging live events on BIMA’s stage, in its galleries, and outside the museum.