RPM Festival and the Brattle Theatre Co-Present Today is Sunday: Films by Jean Sousa

Post Screening Q&A with Doug Urbank and Jean Sousa

RPM Festival and the Brattle theatre co-present a special screening of works by Jean Sousa, a visionary Chicago-based artist whose experimental films and photographic work have left a lasting mark on the contemporary art landscape. Working across media for over four decades, Sousa brings a deeply personal and poetic sensibility to her practice, exploring memory, perception, and the language of images.

Her work has been exhibited and screened widely, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to Anthology Film Archives in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and international venues in London, Paris, and Rome. A two-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and a Regional Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sousa has also been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and held residencies across the U.S. and Europe.

The program, Today is Sunday, spans nine films, from her early 1977 piece Summer Medley to her recent film-poem series, Losing Battle, —offering an evocative journey through Sousa’s evolving experimental voice and visual language.

Summer Medley
16mm Sound 5 min. 1977

What Am I Doing Here
16mm Silent 13 min. 1978

The Circus
16mm Sound 6 min. 1977

Spent Moments
16mm Silent 10 min. 1984

Swish
16mm Silent 2 min. 1982

Today is Sunday
16mm Sound 18 min. 1987

Jane
Remastered 16mm to digital Sound 3 min. 1977/2025

The Mermaid
Remastered 16mm to digital Sound 8 min. 2020

Losing Battle
Digital Sound 5 min. 2019

Total: 70 mins
16mm prints from Canyon Cinema

Please visit revolutionsperminutefest.org for more information.

Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.

No Brattle Passes

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