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Lots of new films just announced for the Walker Art Center, which includes its awesome Expanding the Frame series and video artist Zhao Liang.

EXPANDING THE FRAME: JOURNEYS
Expanding the Frame brings together works that challenge the form and structure of conventional cinema; the unusual approaches taken by these filmmakers provide a fresh and profound take on the universal as they journey into the unknown.

01.21 - An Evening with Ben Russell
01.23/27 – Where is Where?
02.11 – It Came From Kuchar
02.12 – Liverpool
02.24 – An Evening with Daniel Barrow
02.27/28 - Hapax Legomena

VISITING ARTIST: ZHAO LIANG
Zhao Liang’s work examines both rural and urban realities, fast-paced progress and nostalgia, the nature of politics, and the beauty of the natural world. One of China’s leading artists working in video, photography, and documentary film, he clearly connects with the underprivileged, whom he considers to be the engine of society, and homes in on the everyday aspects of life ignored by public institutions.

01.29 – Petition: The Court of Complainants
01.30 – Gallery Talk: Zhao Liang
01.30 – Crime & Punishment

OF LANGUAGE & LONGING: FILMS OF MARGUERITE DURAS
Duras was one of the most widely read French writers of the postwar era. She authored 34 novels from 1943–1993, including her autobiographical L’Amant (The Lover), winner of France’s distinguished literary Prix Goncourt. She also penned the celebrated film Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Disliking others’ adaptations of her work, in the 1960s she began to direct.

02.04 – Marguerite, a Reflection of Herself
02.04 – The Truck & Césarée
02.05 – India Song
02.06 – Destroy, She Said
02.07 – Nathalie Granger

FILMMAKERS IN CONVERSATION: ELLEN KURAS
Called by Filmmaker magazine ”one of the most talented directors of photography working today,” Kuras’ impressive body of work ranges from documentaries to features, straddles the commercial and independent film worlds, and is shot on formats from mini-DV video to 35mm film.

02.17 – Swoon
02.18 – The Betrayal
02.19 – Double Feature: I Shot Andy Warhol & Berlin
02.20 – An Evening with Ellen Kuras

For more information and tickets, check HERE.