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Dir. Sarah Halpern & Tim Geraghty, 2026, USA, 142 min.
MONUMENT is an intellectually stimulating and stylistically inspired excavation of a particular place, a temporal x-ray that encompasses everything from the (Rhode Island) region’s contemporary history of gentrification and displacement, to the earlier eras of social strife, labor politics, and colonial exploitation that brought things to this pass, and even further beyond to geological deep-time. A film of multiple paradoxes, it is at once hyper-specific and profoundly wide-ranging, breathtakingly ambitious yet refreshingly modest, and deeply serious yet also profoundly playful. What it all adds up to is an essay film that has an immense amount to say, and to reveal, about where we’re at and how we’ve gotten here, locally, nationally, and globally.
-Jed Rapfogel, programmer, Anthology Film Archives
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
MONUMENT Part 1
Dir. Sarah Halpern & Tim Geraghty, 2026, USA, 142 min.
MONUMENT is an intellectually stimulating and stylistically inspired excavation of a particular place, a temporal x-ray that encompasses everything from the (Rhode Island) region’s contemporary history of gentrification and displacement, to the earlier eras of social strife, labor politics, and colonial exploitation that brought things to this pass, and even further beyond to geological deep-time. A film of multiple paradoxes, it is at once hyper-specific and profoundly wide-ranging, breathtakingly ambitious yet refreshingly modest, and deeply serious yet also profoundly playful. What it all adds up to is an essay film that has an immense amount to say, and to reveal, about where we’re at and how we’ve gotten here, locally, nationally, and globally.
-Jed Rapfogel, programmer, Anthology Film Archives
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
