Screening times:
Thursday, June 19, 6:30 PM
Friday, June 20, 6:30 PM

Jem Cohen | Austria, USA | 2024, 121m
German and English with English subtitles

Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using the cinematic form to patiently interrogate ways of seeing and being.

The principal subject of Cohen’s film is an Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.

Yet the real matter of the singular Little, Big, and Far — whose title refers to the three concepts Karl and his physicist wife believe are at the core of their work — is as vast as the universe itself, a reckoning with scientific truth at a moment of humanity’s existential crisis.

"Austrian astronomer Karl (Franz Schwartz) compares the unfathomable sprawl of the cosmos to the ecstatic, surging energies of free jazz. Listening to the Coltranes in his Vienna apartment, he describes the sensation of “chaos that isn’t really chaos,” a revelation that has informed the way he looks up at the night sky and looks back over the path his life has taken." - Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com

"Cohen's unhurried docu-fiction hybrid, using real academics and scientists through interviews and anecdotes, is seamlessly melded together, while accentuating his micro/macro world view." - Dustin Chang, Screen Anarchy

Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available). Prices include HST and online booking fees where applicable.