Due to construction, Museum parking may be limited at the time of your visit. Look for additional parking in free or metered spaces along nearby streets.

Grab a Hunk of Lightning

Grab A Hunk of Lightning, a 110-minute film narrated and directed by Dorothea Lange’s granddaughter, award-winning filmmaker Dyanna Taylor, tells the compelling story of the passion, vision, and drive that made Lange one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th century. Virtual discussion with the filmmaker to follow the screening.  

Teknolust

Attend a screening of Teknolust, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, which she cloned from her own D.N.A. 

Photo: 

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Teknolust (still) , 2022

Digital video 

83 minutes 

Third Coast Dance Film Festival

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. Now in its fifteenth year, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival 2025 lineup will include domestic and international films. Join festival founder Rosie Trump for an evening celebrating dance and the moving image.

Film Line Up:

AWAKENING (Taiwan)          

Director: Sze-Ting Huang

Choreographer: Chang-Fu Liao

*Best of Festival Award Winner

 

body landscapes (USA)          

Director & Choreographer: cari ann shim sham*     

 

Blue Funk (South Africa)

Director & Choreographer: Louise Coetzer    

*Best of Festival Award Winner

 

Derby (Canada)          

Director: Pierre-Alexandre Girard     

Choreographer: Helder Seabra

 

Fire in the Belly (USA)           

Director & Choreographer: Amanda Ling

Choreographers: Amanda Ling

 

Heartland (USA)        

Directors: Stéphane Glynn and Molly Heller 

Choreographer: Molly Heller

 

Inter Library Loan (USA)        

Director: Marta Renzi

Chorographers: Marta Renzi with dancers

*Best of Festival Award Winner

 

Notebook (3 experiments) (USA)      

Director: Mitchell Rose          

 

to be near you. (USA)

Directors: Ali Kenner Brodsky & Jarret Blinkhorn      

Choreographer: Ali Kenner Brodsky

 

(un) G A T H E R E D (USA)    

Director: Kayla “mokka” Tomooka    

Choreographers: mokka in collaboration with dancers

*Spirit of the Festival Award Winner

 

woman/water (USA)

Director & Choreographer: Ellen Duffy   

Mountainfilm on Tour

Held annually in Telluride, CO, Mountainfilm is a festival featuring a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and enlightening documentary short films. Join us for a screening of a curated selection of powerful films from the festival. Mountainfilm on Tour is presented in partnership with the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. 

*Doors open at 5pm with a cash bar*

Putuparri and the Rainmakers

Join us for a screening of the film Putuparri and the Rainmakers, a universal story about the sacred relationship between people and place. It takes audiences on a rare and emotional journey to meet the traditional rainmakers of Australia’s Great Sandy Desert who have fought a twenty-year battle to win back their traditional homeland.

The film spans ten transformative years in the life of Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford as he navigates the deep chasm between his Western upbringing and his growing determination to fight for his family’s homeland. A trip back to his grandparents’ country in the desert begins the process of cultural awakening. Putuparri is shocked to learn that the dreamtime myths are not just stories, that there is a country called Kurtal and a snake spirit that is the subject of an elaborate rainmaking ritual.

Putuparri is a man caught between two worlds: the deeply spiritual universe of his people’s traditional culture and his life in modern society where he struggles with alcoholism and domestic violence. As he reconnects with his ancestral lands and learns about his traditional culture he begins to accept his future as a leader of his people and shoulders his responsibility to pass this knowledge on to the next generation.

Set against the backdrop of their long fight to reclaim their traditional lands, Putuparri and the Rainmakers is an emotional, visually breathtaking story of love, hope and the survival of Aboriginal law and culture against all odds.

2024 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Tour

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. Considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers, the Festival includes fiction, documentary, and animation projects from around the world. Throughout its 40 editions, the Festival has supported short films by providing a platform for both established and emerging filmmakers to connect with audiences. Driven by innovation and experimentation, the Short Film Program seeks out filmmaking’s most original voices. The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour program is a sampling of Festival offerings and a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds. Audiences who missed the 2024 Sundance Film Festival — which took place online and in person in Park City, Utah, January 18–28 — can enjoy a mix of fiction, documentary, and animated shorts that are funny, sad, inspiring, and full of strong characters.

The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.

*Some films for mature audiences only*

Mountainfilm on Tour

Held annually in Telluride CO, Mountainfilm is a festival featuring a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed, and enlightening documentary short films. Join us for a screening of a curated selection of powerful films from the festival. Mountainfilm on Tour is presented in partnership with the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. 

*Doors open at 5pm with cash bar

Art21 “Friends and Strangers” featuring Cannupa Hanska Luger

Enjoy a free screening of “Friends and Strangers,” an episode from season 11 of Art in the Twenty-First Century. In this episode, featuring Cannupa Hanska Luger, Miranda July, Linda Goode Bryant and Christine Sun Kim, artists explore what it means to find emotional connection and build community.  

A Black Springs Homecoming: Finding History

Join Nevada Humanities and Our Story Inc. for a conversation about the history of Black Springs, Nevada, a neighborhood located in the North Valleys, approximately six miles from downtown Reno. The 26-minute film will be followed by a panel conversation with scholars and community members. 

A Black Springs Homecoming: Finding History is a documentary film directed by Tsanavi Spoonhunter and produced by Nevada Humanities that tells the story of a small Nevada neighborhood and the ability of its residents to establish an enduring sense of community in the face of widespread racial discrimination and economic hardship. Current and former residents of Black Springs recall how the community worked together in the 1960’s and 1970’s to secure their own volunteer fire department, reliable water service, a community center and park, and more. Together with community partners, they describe ongoing efforts to strengthen the neighborhood’s identity and preserve its story for future generations.

This is a FREE program. 

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

This revelatory documentary film brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.

Musician, Pura Fé who is featured in the film, will introduce the evening.

Run time: 102 minutes.

Presented by Artown and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony in partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art.