The Screen (cinematheque)

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The Screen
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The Screen in 2012
The Screen (cinematheque)
Full nameThe Screen at Midtown Campus
Coordinates 35°39′18″N105°58′32″W / 35.65500°N 105.97569°W / 35.65500; -105.97569
OperatorCenter for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Genre(s) World cinema, Art cinema, Independent films, documentary films
Opened1999 (1999)
Website
ccasantafe.org/cinematheque

The Screen is an arthouse cinema, open to the public, located on the midtown campus owned by the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Founded in 1999 and curated by Brent Kliewer, The Screen shows world, art, and independent cinema, as well as international performances of operas, ballets, and plays via satellite. It was used by the now-defunct Santa Fe University of Art and Design's Moving Image Arts Department on the campus to show films for courses and student clubs.

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Facilities

Built in a former soundstage, The Screen has stadium seating, a 16-speaker Dolby Digital surround sound system, and 35-mm and digital projection on a high-definition curved screen approximately half the size of an IMAX screen. The Screen also utilizes analog sound readers, maximizing the ability to play mono and surround EX prints, and operates simplex changeover projectors with adjustable shutter capabilities to play silent film prints. A satellite receiver is also used to display live operas, plays, and ballets.

Curator

Brent Kliewer has been programming films in Santa Fe since 1982. A film curator, writer, and critic, Kliewer founded Santa Fe's Jean Cocteau Cinema in 1983 and in 1986 began building the film program at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Kliewer was a film critic at the Santa Fe New Mexican and spent five years as a professor of critical studies in the Moving Image Arts Department at the then College of Santa Fe (later Santa Fe University of Art and Design). In the late 1990s, Kliewer helped to design The Screen. [1] [2]

Notable guests

The following individuals presented films to audiences at The Screen:

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References

  1. "Brent Kliewer to Select Films for Santa Fe Film Festival" by Stryder Simms. The Santa Fe Film Festival, August 13, 2011.
  2. "The Family That Screens Together: Brent Kliewer and the Santa Fe Film Festival" by Robert Nott. The Santa Fe New Mexican, July 22, 2011.