Art On Screen

Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas
Director Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost in Person!

Thursday 4/5   7:30
at Amherst Cinema

Trained in Dharamsala, India for nine years, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is one of the few female thangka makers in the world and one of the only fabric thangka makers in the west.

Andrei Rublev

Tuesday 4/10   6:30pm
at Amherst Cinema

Andrei Rublev was a minor icon-painter of the early 1400s. Tarkovsky re-imagines him as a Christ-like cypher for the sufferings of a divided Russia under the Tartar invaders: a troubled visionary reduced to years of silence by the horrors that he witnesses, who finally rediscovers the will to speak - and to paint.

Waste Land

Tuesday 4/17   7:00
at Amherst Cinema

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.