March 28, 2025

Museum Films in April 2025

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Bookended by the return of Oklahoma City University’s free Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, and a program of surreal early short films by David Lynch, Museum Films’ April schedule highlights visionary experimental cinema and documentary explorations of the creative process. This month’s lineup features Cannes Best Director Miguel Gomes’ entrancing experimental romance Grand Tour, and acclaimed documentaries Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874, One to One: John & Yoko, and Secret Mall Apartment. Our Saturday Classics series continues with the iconic Beatles comedy A Hard Day’s Night, and our Frederick Wiseman retrospective concludes with his sweeping nonfiction masterworks Welfare, The Store, Central Park, and Belfast, Maine.

As always, OKCMOA Film Society Members (including Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer members) receive $5 tickets to Museum Films screenings. To learn more about joining the Film Society, visit: https://www.okcmoa.com/filmsociety

Visit the bar inside OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.

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Thurs., April 3 @ 7 pm  | Frederick Wiseman: Documenting American Life

A large-scale profile of the welfare system that illustrates the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: unemployment, divorce, housing, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly.

2025 WIDE OPEN EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | Free Admission

OKCMOA is proud to be a venue for the 2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, organized by the Film Department at Oklahoma City University. Inspired by Oklahoma’s wide-open landscape, WOEFF showcases experimental films that will open peoples’ eyes to the alternative forms, structures, and styles of film.

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Thurs., April 10 @ 7:30 pm | Frederick Wiseman: Documenting American Life

Centered on the flagship Neiman Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas, The Store studies the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising, and selling of a vast array of consumer products.

Fri., April 11 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., April 12 @ 2 & 5:30 pm | Sun., April 13 @ 12:30 pm

Created in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, this this stunning new documentary tells the story of the groundbreaking 1874 First Impressionist Exhibition through the voices of the artists and writers who witnessed the birth of history’s most beloved art movement.

Fri., April 11 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., April 12 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., April 13 @ 2:30 pm | 2025 International Oscar Submission

Portugal’s official Oscar entry and winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Miguel Gomes’ entrancing, thrillingly cinematic romance follows a young English couple on parallel journeys across 1918 East Asia.

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Thurs., April 17 @ 7 pm  | Frederick Wiseman: Documenting American Life

Central Park focuses on the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways people make use of it, while illustrating the complex problems the New York City Parks Department deals with in order to maintain and preserve the park.

Fri., April 18 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., April 19 @ 8 pm | Sun., April 20 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., April 25 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., April 26 @ 5 pm

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival, Jeremy Workman’s enthralling documentary tells the stranger-than-fiction story of eight young artists who created a secret apartment inside of Rhode Island’s Providence Place Mall.

Fri., April 18 @ 8 pm | Sat., April 19 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., April 20 @ 3 pm | Sat., April 26 @ 2 pm | Sun., April 27 @ 12:30 pm

An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, One to One: John & Yoko delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s only full-length concert.

Sat., April 19 @ 2 pm | Saturday Classics

One of the greatest rock-and-roll movies of all time, Richard Lester’s madcap comedy traces two “typical” days in the life of The Beatles, as they flee from screaming fans, jam in a baggage car, cavort in a field, weird out reporters with absurdist comebacks, and wow crowds at an explosive final concert.

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Thurs., April 24 @ 6 pm  | Frederick Wiseman: Documenting American Life

Belfast, Maine is a film about a beautiful old New England port. It is a sweeping portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the small community.

Fri., April 25 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., April 26 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., April 27 @ 3 pm | Remembering David Lynch

Delve deeper into the labyrinthine psyche of surrealist nightmare-weaver David Lynch with these unsettling, hallucinatory shorts that reflect the origins and evolution of his singular style. This program features digital restorations of Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995).

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