Owls can grab their popcorn buckets and head on over to the campus’s student-run movie theater, as the KSC Film Society has released its fall slate of screenings.
They will be starting off this season on Friday, Sept. 5, with “Flow,” a 2024 film written and produced by Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža.
“Flow” is an animated film with no dialogue that follows a cat’s mission to survive a flooding post-apocalyptic environment.
This will be followed by the film, “Pavements” starting Friday, Sept. 12. Other films to be shown this semester include “Magic Farm,” “Thelma,” “Presence” and “The Line.”
According to senior and KSC Film Society President Mariah Rodriguez-Costa, the Putnam Theater is a premier arthouse theater that has been around since the early 70’s and the club offers a welcoming environment where students can meet new people with similar interests and share camaraderie watching, discussing and bonding over movies.
Behind the curtains, KSC Film Society meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Putnam Theater to discuss movies and vote on films that members bring in to pitch to the other members in an effort to see them on the big screen.
Senior and Vice President Tyler Desjardins said, “Folks will bring in Blu-rays or write down what they want to see streaming. Everybody will go through the movies that we have and the people that bring them in will give a little elevator pitch for why we should watch it that night. Once everyone does that, we all vote on what should get the win and then whatever wins there gets it. And then you just watch it that night.”
The club also hosts the scheduled screenings shown weekly from Friday to Monday, where the movies play at 7 p.m, with an extra 3 p.m. matinee on Sundays.
When asking Rodriguez-Costa why they pick the movies they do, she said, “Every single e-board member – there’s five of us – we each pick a movie that we’re very passionate about. That’s our main priority. And then all the other ones were kind of just like, ‘Oh, that won an Oscar.’”
A big factor in choosing movies is whether it fits into their budget, Rodriguez-Costa said. Keene State faced a major financial setback last year that affected many clubs. However, WKNH, KSC’s student-run radio system, donated $2,000 from their budget that was previously allocated to stipends to help the Film Society make up its screening rights deficit.
General admission tickets are priced at $5, students are $2, club members are free and those who come to Film Society’s table at the Student Involvement Fair on September 5 can win a free pass.
Rodriguez-Costa said, “Go to the theater! Our main mission is having fun. You don’t have to be a film major to be in Film Society. You don’t have to be dedicated to the club every single week. It’s a safe space. If you want to go, bring a movie; if you don’t want to, you don’t have to. It’s just meeting people with similar interests. We have a lot of cool members in our club and it’s a little bittersweet because we’re seniors. But it’s a good family.”
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