Film EventsWomen Director Series - NomadlandThursday, March 26, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Nomadland (2020)
Presented by ~ Certain Women
A new film series highlighting women directors with a short film to precede each feature.
Selected and Introduced by your local projectionists... Linda & Chloe!
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
Nomadland was the major winner at the 93rd Academy Awards, securing three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao), and Best Actress (Frances McDormand)
Opening Short Films:
Portland (1996) - 16mm
by: Greta Snider | 12 minutes | B&W
The film is a documentary road movie about travel, the fallibility of photographs, and the merging of memory and imagination.
Still Point (1989) - 16mm
by: Barbara Hammer | 8 minutes | COLOR/B&W
STILL POINT whirls around a point of centeredness as four screens of home and homelessness, travel and weather, architecture and sports signify the constant movement and haste of late twentieth century life. "At the still point of the turning world, that's where the dance is," wrote T.S. Eliot in Burnt Norton, the Four Quartets. Hammer seeks a point of quiet from which all else transiently moves.