Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites you to see and share your own home movies with an audience of your community.  Bring your Super 8, 8mm, and 16mm films to screen or just come to behold the vast array of fascinating amateur movies in the Rochester area! Students from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum will be on-hand to perform film inspections and project the films. All films determined to…

French filmmaker Rose Lowder has been a major influence in the world of experimental cinema since the 1970’s.  Working frame-by-frame in 16mm film, Lowder constructs complex visual phenomena that interweave color, texture, perspective and time, while focusing her lens on the rich landscape of the natural world. Lowder will present a program of classic and recent films, and give a talk on her unique technique for working with 16mm film as a tool for perceptual engagement. Join us as we…

Hosted and curated by local comedian Woody Battaglia and Rochester’s Brunch Town Comedy Collective, this program presents a variety of short films and stand-up comedy performances that add up to more than the sum of their punchlines. Free to VSW members/nonmembers $5 Thursday, November 8 | 7 pm

Founded in 2016, the Rochester Democratic Socialists of America (ROCDSA) believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. Members of the Socialist Feminist Collective from ROCDSA have curated a screening of films from the VSW collection that engage with the ideals of socialist feminism, human rights and economic, racial, and gender justice. Free to VSW and ROCDSA members/ nonmembers $5 Saturday, November 17th  | 2 pm