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AN ART ON SCREEN FILM
A ONE-TIME-ONLY PRE-RELEASE SCREENING OF WILDCAT
Special Guests: Director Ethan Hawke and Actor Steve Zahn
SAT, APR 13
Film @ 3:30PM
Q&A with Ethan Hawke and Steve Zahn @ 5:30PM
Filmed in Louisville and directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?
In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at 24-years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.
ABOUT ART ON SCREEN
Hundreds of films explore the arts and the lives of artists. ART ON SCREEN seeks to broaden an interest in the arts through the creative pairing of films about art and artists with entertaining discussions by notable speakers from the world of art and art history.
We think of ART ON SCREEN as ‘TED Talks’ goes to the movies. Our goal is to broaden interest in the arts in an entertaining manner meant to appeal not only to art aficionados but also to those who find the art world a bit intimidating or mystifying.
ART ON SCREEN is made possible through the generous support of Jackie Hamilton.