RI Video Roundup
We asked Motif’s resident video production supervisor to recommend some locally grown vids that made his year: 1. Dawn the Duck You may think you have a robust social life, […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Ken Burns brings his revolution to RI: Famed documentarian stumps for his new series on the American Revolution
Ken Burns made documentaries cool. His early work, spanning back to the ‘70s, inspired generations to engage differently with documentaries. Reenactments, slow-burn pans across historic documents and paintings, and comfortable […]
BTS with DMK: Behind The Scenes with filmmaker Kristen Falso-Capaldi
If you haven’t noticed yet, Rhode Island is bursting with endless creative energy. Providence has named itself the Creative Capital and is the home of the Rhode Island School of […]
Woman in the sky: A life well cherished…
Max Woertendyke’s documentary-short Woman in the Sky is a retrospective exploration of the past grounded in the present; a navigation of passion within the responsibility of someone else’s life’s work. […]
The Magical Nature and Public Service of The Gilded Age: Christine Baranski’s take at a Newport press conference
A few days before HBO’s “The Gilded Age” Season 3 finale drew 5 million US viewers, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Christine Baranski, who plays Agnes van Rhijn in the […]
RKO Army honors 50 years of rocky horror picture show: The iconic rocky horror convention
Whether you are a professional shadowcaster, a die-hard Rocky Horror lover, or a curious individual wondering what all the excitement is about, RKO Army’s Rocky Horror Convention is about to […]
Premier in PVD: The 48 Hour Film Festival returns to the Creative Capital
Menacing gray clouds were gathering over Providence this past July 8, threatening to put a damper on the opening night celebration of the 2025 48 Hour Film Festival at the […]
RI International Film Festival, Aug 5 – 10: Oscar qualifying festival celebrates its 43rd year
The RI International Film Festival (RIIFF) will hold its 43rd annual “Flickers” with screenings at six venues in Providence and one at the Misquamicut Drive-In, beginning with their traditional gala […]
This Is Not Your Average Movie Night: A look into one of the strongest and remaining drive-in movie theaters of the Ocean State
Whether it is a hot summer night or a freezing winter evening, you find yourself sitting under the stars. Fireflies flicker around or maybe frost clings to the windshield as […]
New Film: Big Daddy Flowers
After graduating from Brown University, Matthew Osubor worked as an overnight security guard to be able to raise the starting capital he needed to start his own media digitization company. […]