film – UofL News Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 New Music Festival features musical, virtual reality film experience /section/arts-and-humanities/new-music-festival-features-musical-virtual-reality-film-experience/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:40:40 +0000 http://www.uoflnews.com/?p=49721 The School of Music will host a special spring semester edition of its annual March 1-4 with a featured virtual reality program and experience: “.”

Film director Roderick Coover teamed up with , composer and UofL assistant professor of composition, to create a surreal musical, virtual reality romp across time and space that’s been adapted to project onto the dome in the .

“The idea is the viewer is going to lose himself in the project,” Wołek said.

In the film, Tanek is a young scientist who is trying to make a time travel machine in the 1920s. The character is propelled 200 years forward into a bleak future environment ravaged by climate change and war. The film mixes the genres of science fiction, surrealism, expressionism and opera, sending viewers on a journey into a dream-like world, where Tanek must confront his doppelganger and win back his true love, Anna, to save the world from destruction.

“What is different really, with the new technology, is that you have this combination of the images that are moving, the sound that is all around you and it all moves as you move,” said Coover.

Filmed at the CeTA Studios in Poland, “The Key to Time” features both Polish performers and UofL vocal faculty: Emily Albrink, Katherine Calcamuggio, Jesse Donner and Chad Sloan. The film received the prestigious Adam Mickiewicz Award.

Coover will give a free, public lecture addressing climate change and mass extinction through emerging cinematic arts at 4 p.m.Tuesday, March 3, in the Chao Auditorium.

to see a full list of New Music Festival concerts, events and lectures.

“The Key to Time” viewing opportunities

Sunday, March 1, 1 p.m., Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium

Monday, March 2, 3 p.m., Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium

Virtual Reality Exhibition:
Monday, March 2 – Wednesday, March 4, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Music Library, School of Music

]]> French Film Fest adds Speed Cinema showings to Floyd Theater lineup /section/arts-and-humanities/french-film-fest-adds-speed-cinema-showings-to-floyd-theater-lineup/ /section/arts-and-humanities/french-film-fest-adds-speed-cinema-showings-to-floyd-theater-lineup/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:29:31 +0000 http://uoflnews.com/?p=34911 Cinema buffs who enjoy their movies with a French accent — and English subtitles — have a lot of free, public screenings and discussions in store in February during the expanded 2017 French Film Festival at the University of Louisville and Speed Art Museum.

The festival explores French and French-speaking cultures through a variety of genres. Some films will be shown on the Belknap Campus, and, in partnership, the Speed Cinema at the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., will feature four classic French films as part of its Free Owsley Sundays.

At UofL, the films will be shown in Floyd Theater of the Swain Student Activities Center, 2100 S. Floyd St. The 5 p.m. Thursday screenings will include post-film discussions with UofL and other local experts on French-speaking cultures and film studies. Film descriptions, speakers and trailers are .

The UofL Floyd Theater schedule includes:

  • “Being 17,” 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 2 and 2 p.m. Feb. 3
  • “A Kid,” 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 9 and 2 p.m. Feb. 10
  • “School of Babel,” 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 16 and 2 p.m. Feb. 17
  • “Things to Come,” 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 23 and 2 p.m. Feb. 24.

The Speed Cinema schedule includes:

  • “Rififi,” 12:30 p.m. Feb. 5
  • “Elevator to the Gallows,” 12:30 p.m. Feb. 12
  • “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” 12:30 p.m. Feb. 19
  • “The Battle of Algiers,” 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26.

Festival sponsors are UofL’s classical and modern languages department, Student Activities Board, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and Liberal Studies Project; and the Speed Art Museum.

Photo provided by a New Wave Films press release.

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