DACAMERA Young Artists: Vertigo of Color

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism, on view February 25 to May 27. Entry to the museum is free on Thursdays.

Free

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Bên trong vo kén vàng)

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

A Q&A with filmmaker Pham Thien An follows the February 9 screening. Winner of the 2023 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this hypnotic debut feature is written, directed, and edited by Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An (who lives part-time in Houston). After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law, Thien (Le […]

$7 – $9

Naked Acts

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Naked Acts depicts conflicts surrounding the expectations of bodies in intimate settings on screen, in real life, and in the mind. Writer/director Bridgett M. Davis sets out to examine the impact on self-image of “the dominant film portrayals of Black women in this country’s cinematic history” and “to get beyond the limitations placed on our […]

$7 – $9

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

This lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi marks the feature debut of award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt presents a visually poetic portrait that serves as a beautiful ode to the culture and people that shape us. 2023 Thessaloniki Film Festival: Winner, Silver Alexander—Film Forward […]

$7 – $9

Mountains

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Monica Sorelle’s debut feature follows a Haitian father and his family as their local Miami neighborhood faces the effects of rapidly increasing patterns of gentrification. Dream and desire, honor and hatred, love and lust—all contrast in this journey to find where one belongs in the middle of socioeconomic change. 2023 Tribeca Film Festival: Winner, Special […]

$7 – $9