THE ARC OF OBLIVION

Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
January 6 + 7 at 10am
Free

Part of Cinema Explorations, a wintertime community-curated film series.

Free admission, made possible by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities.

The Arc of Oblivion is an unexpectedly playful search for an answer to a deeply existential question: In a universe that erases its tracks, why are we so hellbent on leaving a trace? This may seem an unusual concern for those involved in photography and motion pictures, which first offered humanity an opportunity to accurately preserve images. Set against the backdrop of a quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, Ian Cheney’s film heads far afield–to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara–to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory. This is that exceptional documentary that poses a serious question and makes the journey to finding an answer surprisingly fun. We are excited to be able to offer the opportunity to see this film and even more excited that filmmaker Ian Cheney will join us to answer questions and participate in our discussion.

In English, and in French with English subtitles.

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MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
                                      
Maine Film Center
93 Main Street, Waterville
January 6 at 12:30pm
Quote-Along: January 7 at 12:30pm
From $12
Eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund

Screening the classic film on January 6 and the Quote-Along version on January 7.

Bring out your dead! And your coconuts, and your best quoting voice (on Sunday, anyway), and revisit what remains one of the funniest comedies ever made for the 48 ½ anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Get ready to journey into a world of medieval madness, coconut-clacking horses, the Knights Who Say “Ni,” and unforgettable one-liners in this uproarious Quote-Along version of a comedy classic. Alternatively, stick with the original version, which–in all honesty–hardly needs much goosing to be sidesplitting in itself.

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