DelArt Film Society host screenings every Saturday at 1:30 pm, with free screenings for members on the last Saturday of each month. Family-friendly screenings will take place on the second Sunday of each month at 1:30 pm. Refreshments will be available downstairs near DelArt’s 160-seat auditorium, including snacks from Kaffeina Cafe and a bar offering beer and wine. Please do not bring outside food or beverages. Water bottles may be brought in and filled at the station near the auditorium.
Join us for a special screening of Black Girl in Paris (19 min) directed by Kiandra Parks before Cléo from 5 to 7. Stay after the film for a discussion with Kiandra about her film and the French New Wave.
Cleo has hit songs, a lovely voice, and adoring fans. She also has two hours until her biopsy results are in. She wanders the streets of Paris awaiting her fate. Her worries increase and she struggles to come to terms with what this diagnosis would mean.
One of the Gods of Cinema, Agnès Varda directed her first feature in 1955, was nominated for a competitve Oscar in 2017 at the age of 89, and directed her final film in 2019…a documentary about her own career.
A contemporary tale of passion, adventure, and uninhibited sexual freedom as one young woman navigates her way through the City of Light. Delaware native, Kiandra Parks, wrote and directed Black Girl in Paris as her thesis film at NYU Grad Film School. It was licensed to HBO in 2013 and lives on Amazon Prime.