CINEMATHEQUE 
John Steppling, curator  

Art is meant to be disruptive, and to somehow startle one into an awakening; an increased awareness of the world around us. The prevailing distortions of the primal human act of creation (entertainment, advertising, etc) are in fact designed to do just the opposite (i.e. put one to sleep). Film can be something more than simply a popular diversion, and it is our intent to suggest the many and varied forms such film art can take. The Cinematheque will try to show the less known and less shown, as well as enduring masterpieces. It is through artists such as Robert Bresson, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Pier Paulo Pasolini, Robert Aldrich, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman and many many others, that students of cinema can learn a critical vocabulary and a film aesthetic that will resist the tidal pull of mass market distraction and sentimentality orde-contexutalized violence. Our world is historical and political and aesthetic -- and film is a predominant art form for the 21st century.