Director Ian Cheney joins us in person for a post-film observation outside the Cinema in an accessible location.
This screening is free to Amherst Cinema Members.
In OBSERVER, filmmaker Ian Cheney embarks on an experiment in which he brings a series of keen-eyed observers—scientists, artists, a hunter—to a range of locations around the world, often without telling them where they are going, and asks them simply to describe what they see.
What unfolds is a deep exploration and celebration of the power of observation: what happens when you find new ways to sense & perceive the world around you?
With customary whimsy and a small painted red square that Cheney brings on every journey, the film is an invitation to viewers to find beauty and meaning in even the most quotidian of locales.
OBSERVER is presented with Open Captions.
Ian Cheney is a documentary filmmaker. He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale and a MFA in filmmaking from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His twelve feature-length films prior to OBSERVER (2025) include KING CORN (2007), THE CITY DARK (2010), THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO (2014), THE MOST UNKNOWN (2018), PICTURE A SCIENTIST (2020), THE ARC OF OBLIVION (2023), and SHELF LIFE (2024). He has helmed Wicked Delicate Films since 2003. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he has taught at Yale College and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. You can read his blatherings on Subtack but don’t bother. He lives in Maine.
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