Films

Dallas Goethe Center Film Series

Presented in partnership with the Dallas Goethe Center

Selected Sundays
2:00 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium
Included in general admission to the Museum; DMA members and Dallas Goethe Center members are FREE
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis and reservations are not required.

Join us for a series of screenings of German films, ranging in subject and time period but commonly dealing with cultural and societal life in Germany. Scott Churchill, University of Dallas Psychology Professor and Dallas Goethe Center film programmer, will lead the audience in a discussion of the film after each screening.

The Ascent of Mount Chimborazo (Die Besteigung des Chimborazo) (1989)
Sunday, September 19

At the age of thirty-two, Alexander von Humboldt finds himself in South America preparing to ascend Chimborazo, the highest mountain in the region, which had never been conquered before. His curiosity, his cosmopolitan open-mindedness, and the values of the French revolution guide him throughout the strenuous ascent. Brief film sequences and flashbacks during his ascent illustrate the desperation and passion with which young Alexander von Humboldt sought to realize his idea of exploring the world and breaking out of the confined Prussian world.
This film is not rated (96 minutes).

A Father’s Music (Nach der Musik) (2007)
Sunday, November 21

An in-depth examination of a public persona and the mysteries of a private life. Celebrated director Otmar Suitner, an Austrian in the GDR, a man caught between two women, between a life in the East and a life in the West, and an absent father to filmmaker Igor Heitzmann. A Father's Music is the cinematic portrait of a great conductor, recounted by his son, who searches for music in an endeavor to learn more about his father.
This film is not rated (105 minutes).

Dallas Art Dealers Association 25th Anniversary Film

Presented in partnership with the Dallas Art Dealers Association

Sunday, October 10
2:00 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium
Included in general admission to the Museum
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis and reservations are not required.

Join us for the premiere of a film looking at the Dallas visual art scene over the past twenty-five years. Created in honor of the establishment of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Endowment Fund, the film looks backwards and forwards at the Dallas visual art scene through interviews with noted artists, gallerists, and museum curators.