SCREENING
Thank You and Good Night + Janine + Tomboychik
Sunday, Sep 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
With Jan Oxenberg and Sandi DuBowski in person
Thank You and Good Night
Dir. Jan Oxenberg. 1991, 83 mins. U.S. DCP.
Janine
Dir. Cheryl Dunye. 1990, 9 mins. U.S. Digital projection.
Tomboychik
Dir. Sandi DuBowski. 1993, 15 mins. U.S. DCP.
In her sui generis, recently rediscovered, deeply hilarious Thank You and Good Night, Jan Oxenberg pulls focus on her grandmother, playfully approaching memory and mortality by using cardboard cutouts to recreate scenes of her childhood and other candid family memories. It’s an utterly unexpected treatment of a close-knit familial unit realizing and reckoning with the imminent loss of their matriarch. Preceded by Dunye’s meditation on a friendship lost to time and the filmmaker’s own coming out and DuBowski’s intimate exploration of struggles with gender and sexuality, made in playful collaboration with his grandmother.
Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.