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September 30th | Film Society | Arrival
What if time isn’t something we move through, but something we can see? ⏳ This Wednesday, DKU Film Society presents to you the movie Arrival (2016), directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film follows Louise Banks, a linguist the military recruits when twelve alien spacecraft appear around the world. Her job is to talk to them. […]
September 23rd | Film Society | Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
What does it mean to be human? This week, DKU Film Society invites you to a special screening of Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Directed by Ridley Scott, Blade Runner takes us to a dark, futuristic Los Angeles where artificial humans known as replicants live alongside people. Rick Deckard, a former blade […]
September 16th | Film Society | Coherence
What if the only way to survive tonight was to become someone else? This Wednesday, DKU Film Society presents Coherence (2013), James Ward Byrkit’s directorial debut. Eight friends sit down to dinner as a comet crosses overhead. Then the lights fail, and down the street, in a house that shouldn’t exist, they see themselves. As photographs, […]
September 9th | Film Society | Solaris
What if the universe could bring your memories to life? This Wednesday, hosted by Professor Erin Wilkerson, DKU Film Society is excited to invite you to a screening of Solaris (1972). Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, the film follows psychologist Kris Kelvin, who travels to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris to investigate the […]
September 2nd | Film Society | Dune Double Feature
September 2nd | Film Society | Dune Double Feature A desert world. A prophecy. And the price of becoming a messiah. This Wednesday, hosted by Professor Ben Van Overmeire, DKU Film Society invites you to a back-to-back screening of Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s […]
August 26th | Film Society | Interstella
Love transcends every boundary of time and space. Hosted by Professor Henderson, this Wednesday, DKU Film Society presents to you the masterpiece movie Interstellar (2014). Directed by Christopher Nolan, this scientifically rigorous and emotionally profound film is set in a dying Earth plagued by ecological collapse and global famine. It follows former NASA astronaut and […]
DKU Film Society｜Curatorial Statement of The Science Fiction Series
DKU Film Society｜Curatorial Statement of The Science Fiction Series A new academic year, another year of Film Society at DKU. To open the year, our first theme will be Science Fiction. Science fiction has long been associated with aliens, spaceships, and distant futures, but beneath the spectacle are questions that feel much closer to home: […]
