Movies on the House
Your ticket to the greatest films you have never seen.
Some of the finest, provocative, beautifully made and stirring films don’t make it to the multiplex theaters. Or if they do, they disappear too quickly for most of us to see. MOTH is here to bring you, for free, some of the world’s greatest films that may have escaped your attention. MOTH screens films at the Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater and the UNF Gallery of Art on the UNF campus, and downtown at MOCA Jacksonville. Every month during Fall and Spring Semester you have a chance to see the finest achievements in cinema. We scour the underground, the festivals, and the world, to give you must-see films that will warm, singe or burn you. If you can take the heat, come to the light.
Following a hiatus for the safety of all during the COVID-19 pandemic, Movies on the House returns in full swing this fall semester. We would like you to follow our Recommended Films that we WOULD have loved to see with you.
History of MOTH
In 1998, UNF President Fretwell wanted to create a community centered on cinema. He established a fund that could provide students, faculty, staff and the wider community with great films to ponder, discuss, debate, be outraged and be moved by. He knew that film was the source of our most widely shared stories, and that watching films together helps us understand each other in a way that can never happen by watching films alone on our laptops, phones and televisions. With the generous and unwavering support of President John A. Delaney, and the future support of the University, MOTH will continue to bring us together around a love of film.
The series was first housed at Regal Cinema on Beach Blvd. Following a generous donation of 35mm film equipment from Regal Inc, we began projecting films on campus. Now with HD digital replacing 35mm film, we project films in Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater's newly renovated screening rooms, the UNF Gallery of Art, and in the screening room of MOCA Jacksonville downtown.
Upcoming Movies
Five Latin American Contemporary Shorts — MUESTRA 5C
Spanish with English subtitles
The goal of Muestra 5C is to provide an alternative space for Mexican and international filmmakers and to immerse in a multidisciplinary space for artistic practice, with dialogue between authors, spectators, and their work. Watch La melodía torrencial (José Luis Saturno, 2022), a stop-motion short mixing fantasy, climate change, and surrealism in the midst of a drought; Return to the Onyx Womb (Benjamín Alcántara, 2022), an intimate portrait of a worker in his mountain of onyx marble; Las huellas que vamos dejando (Andrés Alonso Ayala, 2022), the story of a community self-government fighting for clandestine logging in rural Michoacán; El torito, una danza libre (Roberto Antonio Salazar, 2021), a documentary about LGBTTIQ+ communities in Mexican carnival, and the appropriation of queer voices through the “Maringuía”; and Entre líneas (Juan Paulín Lara, 2022), a story about life during and after COVID-19 pandemic.
We will gather at the UNF Gallery of Art at 7 p.m. with programming to begin at 7:30 p.m. We will hear brief introductions from the filmmakers and discuss the films afterward.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2023, 7:30 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OR ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Titane
French with English subtitles
After Raw in 2016, Julia Ducournau continued her exploration of the human body with Titane, a 2021 French body horror psychological drama film that smells of sweat, blood, and motor oil. The film is pop and trash, pink and blue, nervous and sentimental, and questions identity, filiation, and desire. It evokes both the cinema of David Cronenberg and the universe of Japanese Hentai. Careful, this film is a rollercoaster.
Visit Titane on the IMDB website
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023, 7:30 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OF ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Noise / Ruido
Spanish with English subtitles
Named by the public “The movie that shouldn’t exist”, Ruido is making a lot of noise, showing the silenced cruelty of disappeared women, families shattered by violence, and prevailing corruption. Nataliz Beristáin’s third film allows us to recognize through the eyes of a mother the pain of loss and the impotence towards institutions but also opens the dialogue about sorority and the healing power of community, art, and embroidery.
Join us and learn more about Dr. Constanza López’s project Embroidering for Peace and Memory
Visit Ruido on the IMDB website
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023, 7:30 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OF ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Huesera: The Bone Woman
Spanish with English subtitles
Garza Cervera’s opera prima, Huesera: The Bone Woman, is one of those horror movies that you won’t be able to easily forget. A supernatural-maternal drama, this film is perfect for a celebration of Halloween and Día de Muertos, taking a traditional healing role of “bone-cracking” into a surreal nightmare. Visceral, physical, and thrilling, the film is also a plea against domestication and a resignification of heteronormative roles in Mexican society.
Join us after the film screening for Q&A with director, Michelle Garza, and a celebration of Día de Muertos at MOCA Jacksonville.
Visit Huesera: The Bone Woman on the IMDB website
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2023, 7:30 P.M.
MOCA JACKSONVILLE, BUILDING 99
Saint Omer
French with English subtitles
If you like true stories, the myth of Medea, and the work of Raymond Depardon, Pialat or Bresson, come and see 2022 French legal drama Saint Omer by Alice Diop. After eight documentaries, Saint Omer is Diop’s first narrative feature. In the film, Rama (Kagame) is a pregnant young novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old child. The film won the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize along with the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award at the Venice International Film Festival.
Visit Saint Omer on the IMDB website
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023, 7:30 P.M.
UNF ANDREW A. ROBINSON, JR. THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314
Past Movies
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Spring 2023 | Robinson Theater, UNF Gallery of Art, Sun-Ray Cinema | Wednesdays, Various Times
Day Movie January 18 After Blue February 15 Dressed in Blue March 1 Call Her Ganda March 22 Eames: The Architect and the Painter March 29 Short Ethnographic Films April 6-9 Sleeping Giant Festival April 19 The Experimental City -
Fall 2022 | Robinson Theater, MOCA Jacksonville, UNF Gallery of Art | Wednesdays, Various Times
Day Movie October 5 No No Sleep October 13 La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House) October 19 The Lavender Scare -
Spring 2020 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Day Movie January 15 Eddie Murphy: Raw January 29 Hail Satan? February 12 The Lighthouse February 26 Woman at War March 11 The Aristocrats March 25 Attack the Block (Canceled) April 8 One Cut of the Dead -
Spring 2020 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Day Movie January 9 Kusama: Infinity January 30 A Fantastic Woman February 6 The Queen February 27 Call Me By Your Name March 5 In Fabric March 12 Frida April 2 An Unmarried Woman -
Fall 2019 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film August 28 Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf September 11 The Souvenir September 25 God's Own Country october 9 Whores on Film October 23 A Ghost Story November 6 Border Politics November 20 First Reformed December 4 Dogman -
Fall 2019 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film September 5 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) September 19 Human Flow (2017) October 3 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973) october 17 Entre Nos (2009) October 31 The Vanishing (1988) November 14 A Touch of Sin (2013) November 21 Stalker (1979) December 12 A Season in France (2017) -
Spring 2019 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film January 16 The Wolfpack January 30 Human Flow February 13 Blade Runner 2049 February 27 Mandy March 13 We the Animals March 27 Saving Capitalism April 10 Madeline's Madeline -
Spring 2019 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film January 10 13th January 17 Blade Runner, Final Cut October 11 I Am Not Your Negro October 25 Flight of the Red Balloon November 8 Faces Places December 6 Bill Cunningham in New York -
Fall 2018 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film September 5 Colossal September 19 Pinocchio October 3 Land of Mine October 17 November October 31 Raw November 14 Moonlight November 28 The Transfiguration -
Fall 2018 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film September 13 Girl Without Hands September 27 Visage October 11 I Am Not Your Negro October 25 Flight of the Red Balloon November 8 Faces Places December 6 Bill Cunningham in New York -
Spring 2013
Date Film January 17 Adanggaman January 31 After Innocence February 14 Curling February 28 A Housekeeper March 14 Demonlover March 28 Intimate Stories April 11 Songs from the Second Floor -
Fall 2012
Date Film August 23 13 Assassins September 6 Turn Me On, Dammit! September 20 Sin Nombre October 4 God Grew Tired of Us October 18 We Were Here November 1 The Sky Turns November 15 Trembling Before G-d November 29 Passione -
Spring 2012
Date Film January 12 Margin Call January 26 Benda Bilili! February 9 Incendies February 23 Somewhere March 8 Everybody's Famous March 22 The Future April 5 The Hedgehog April 19 Bellflower -
Fall 2011
Date Film August 25 Biutiful September 8 Howl September 22 Cave of Forgotten Dreams October 6 The Visitor October 20 Meek's Cutoff November 3 The Tillman Story November 17 Stone December 1 Four Lions -
Spring 2011
Date Film January 13 Winter's Bone January 27 Monsters February 10 Mother February 24 Night Catches Us March 10 All Good Things March 24 A Film Unfinished April 7 Inside Job April 21 Lebanon
