Hannah Bonner, Author at Little Village

CR designer’s work in ‘Totally Under Control’ clarifies its uncompromising look at our government’s COVID failures

Posted on Nov 3, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

Watching a contemporary documentary about events unfolding in real time is a surreal exercise that elicits both despair and incredulity. Directors Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger’s film Totally Under Control (2020), available on Hulu, explores the (mis)management of COVID-19 in the United States and deftly investigates the way American politicians and public health […]

Big pictures, smaller screens: Gearing up for the 17th Annual ICDOCS online

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

From Thursday, April 30 to Saturday, May 2, the 17th Annual ICDOCS film festival will be presented as a free live-streamed event due to health concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Q&As with the filmmakers following the film screenings will still take place, albeit entirely online. Jurors will also still review programmed films in competition. […]

Tristen Ives’s new film is an exercise in vulnerability and the inexpressible

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

On Sunday, March 1, at 6 p.m., Public Space One will screen PS1 Free Studio Resident Tristen Ives’ diaristic film take a pic of me and leave me here, a screening and installation that is the culmination of their four-month residency. The screening is free, and patrons should note that 225 and 229 N. Gilbert […]

‘The Assistant’: A snapshot of our current conversation around sexual misconduct (the image isn’t pretty)

Posted on Feb 22, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

Kitty Green’s The Assistant is currently playing at FilmScene on the Ped Mall for the next two weeks. Papercuts are not the only wounds that sear in Green’s masterful and mesmerizing feature film The Assistant (2020). Some hurts are untraceable, undetectable on the surface of one’s skin. While the industrial revolution altered the domestic sphere’s […]

Only connect: FilmScene’s Filmmaker Spotlight showcases ‘Last Chance Tango’

Posted on Feb 17, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

On Monday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m., FilmScene at the Ped Mall will screen Sonja Strathearn’s feature film Last Chance Tango (2019) as part of their Filmmaker Spotlight series. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Strathearn. More information about the film and her work can be found at her website. A photograph. […]

‘Color Out of Space’ is a psychedelic horror trip you won’t want to end

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 by Hannah Bonner

Nathan rushes Theresa to the hospital, leaving their children at home to fend for themselves. But the television is all static. The cell phone signals are scrambled. Time is incongruous, no longer adhering to linearity or logic. Something sinister is brewing … […]

Acclaimed filmmaker Charles Burnett to receive Cinema Savant award

Posted on Oct 31, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

On Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Chauncey, FilmScene will award renowned director and screenwriter Charles Burnett with the prestigious Iowa City 2019 Cinema Savant award. The event will be followed by a reception honoring Burnett and his oeuvre. […]

FilmScene organizers are ‘kids in the candy store’ ahead of The Chauncey’s debut

Posted on Sep 19, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

On Sept. 20-22, Iowa City residents will have the opportunity to attend the grand opening weekend of FilmScene’s new location in the recently raised Chauncey building. The Chauncey is FilmScene’s second space, located off of Gilbert Street in downtown Iowa City; FilmScene will keep their original Ped Mall cinema open as well. The Chauncey
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The evils of white supremacy are on stark display in ‘The Nightingale,’ a grim rape-revenge drama set in colonial Tasmania

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

On Friday, Aug. 23, FilmScene opened Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale for a limited run. Art house audiences know Kent from her critically lauded horror film The Babadook (2014), which chronicles the mental deterioration of single mother, Amelia, reeling from her husband’s death and desperately struggling to parent her young son. The Nightingale also features a […]

It’s a great day to be a Hawkeye: ‘Ironmen’ local casting call at FilmScene

Posted on Jun 20, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

On Saturday, June 22 from 9-11 a.m., FilmScene will be hosting open casting calls for the roles of Elizabeth Catlett and Grant Wood for the upcoming Hollywood production of Ironmen, an adaptation of the book Nile by Tom Lidd produced by Iowa City native Joseph Grandy Heath. […]

I learned it at the movies: Scenesters Selects Series kicks off at FilmScene

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

“Media arts education is a vital part of what FilmScene does year-round,” says FilmScene’s programming director Rebecca Fons. “Our inaugural year of Scenesters has been an important addition to our education initiatives — and so much fun.” […]

Eyes wide open: Eagerly awaiting ICDOCS

Posted on Apr 18, 2019 by Hannah Bonner

ICDOCS 2019 Various venues (schedule below) — Thursday, April 18-Saturday, April 20 Jonas Mekas, a quintessential and oft-cited experimental filmmaker, once wrote that American independent cinema exhibitions are “movies which you can’t see anywhere.” Mekas’s sentiment is equally true of the electrifying and eclectic documentary shorts being screened this week for the annual Iowa City […]

Articles by Hannah Bonner

CR designer’s work in ‘Totally Under Control’ clarifies its uncompromising look at our government’s COVID failures

Big pictures, smaller screens: Gearing up for the 17th Annual ICDOCS online

Tristen Ives’s new film is an exercise in vulnerability and the inexpressible

‘The Assistant’: A snapshot of our current conversation around sexual misconduct (the image isn’t pretty)

Only connect: FilmScene’s Filmmaker Spotlight showcases ‘Last Chance Tango’

‘Color Out of Space’ is a psychedelic horror trip you won’t want to end

Acclaimed filmmaker Charles Burnett to receive Cinema Savant award

FilmScene organizers are ‘kids in the candy store’ ahead of The Chauncey’s debut

The evils of white supremacy are on stark display in ‘The Nightingale,’ a grim rape-revenge drama set in colonial Tasmania

It’s a great day to be a Hawkeye: ‘Ironmen’ local casting call at FilmScene

I learned it at the movies: Scenesters Selects Series kicks off at FilmScene

Eyes wide open: Eagerly awaiting ICDOCS

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