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Still from Jem Cohen’s Little, Big, and Far (2024) courtesy of Grasshopper Film

Little, Big, and Far

Art Films and Special Screenings

  • Saturday, March 29, 2025
  • 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • East Building Auditorium
  • Films
  • In-person
  • Registration Required
  • Drop-In Registration

Join us for a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Jem Cohen, in person.

Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, Little, Big, and Far. Again, he uses 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 reevaluating 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 subject of 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. (Jem Cohen, 2024, English and German with English subtitles, DCP, 121 minutes)

Presented in partnership with DC’s Environmental Film Festival 2025.

Part of the ongoing film series Art Films and Special Screenings.