WATERVILLE — Maine Film Center plans to present Cinema Explorations, a free, community-curated wintertime film series sponsored by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities.
With the goal of showcasing a range of storytelling from around the world, Cinema Explorations will feature five films in its 2024 edition.
The series is set to open Saturday, Jan. 6, with “The Arc of Oblivion,” a Camden International Film Festival-premiere documentary directed by New England filmmaker Ian Cheney and executive produced by Werner Herzog. “The Arc of Oblivion” follows Cheney’s wide-ranging journeys — from Maine to the Alps, the Arctic, and the Sahara — to examine humanity’s archives, record-keeping, and memories, amidst his quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine. Cheney will join the audience for a post-screening discussion.
“There’s almost no better way to spend an otherwise quiet Maine winter morning than adventuring across the world through film,” said Mike Perreault, executive director of the Maine Film Center, according to a news release from Christ Melville, Waterville Creates director of marketing and communications. “The longstanding Cinema Explorations series, expertly and lovingly curated by a local group of film-lovers, promises to be as expansive and entertaining as ever.”
With the sponsorship of the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities, Cinema Explorations showings are free. Screenings for Cinema Explorations films are set for 10 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and seat reservation is encouraged.
“The Arc of Oblivion” is set for Jan. 6-7, “Driving Madeleine” will be screened Jan. 20-21, “The Owners” is planned for Feb. 3-4, “Between Two Worlds” is scheduled for Feb. 17-18, and the series will wrap up with “The Night of the 12th” on March 2-3.
For more information, visit mainefilmcenter.org.
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