Events

Name: I’m Still Here
Start: 2025-02-07T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-02-20T23:59:59-07:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

Film

List
Month

November 2024
November 8, 2024 - November 14, 2024

Blitz

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London...
November 15, 2024 - November 21, 2024

Bird

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking...
November 15, 2024 - November 21, 2024

Turtles

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Since Thom and Henri met 35 years ago, their love for each other has never faltered. The seemingly perfect life...
November 22, 2024 - November 28, 2024

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

A century after Alfred Hitchcock's first film, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema....
November 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm

True Stories

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA's long-running monthly series on music and film, Amplified. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Music icon David Byrne...

$15
November 29, 2024 - December 5, 2024

Dahomey

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive documentary that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching...
November 29, 2024 - December 5, 2024

A Traveler's Needs

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between South Korean director Hong Sangsoo...
November 29, 2024 - December 5, 2024

Meanwhile on Earth

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

A sci-fi psychodrama like nothing you’ve seen before, Meanwhile on Earth follows aspiring graphic novelist Elsa (an arresting Megan Northam,...
December 2024
December 6, 2024 - December 9, 2024

Flow

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

OFFICIAL SUBMISSION: ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE (Latvia) A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat...
December 6, 2024 - December 12, 2024

The Invisible Raptor

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. When the creature’s identity is uncovered, it soon...
December 13, 2024 - December 19, 2024

Oh, Canada

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Oh, Canada is a new film written and directed by Paul Schrader, based on the 2021 novel Foregone by Russel Banks, starring Richard...
December 13, 2024 - December 19, 2024

The End

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical...
December 20, 2024 - December 26, 2024

All We Imagine As Light

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes! The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated...
December 20, 2024 - December 26, 2024

Queer

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

From Academy Award winning director Luca Guadagnino, written by Justin Kuritzkes and based on the novel by William S. Burroughs,...
December 22, 2024

The Atomic Cafe

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented ONE DAY ONLY, with matinee and evening screenings FREE to attend for CCA Member’s only! (Tickets available first-come, first served.) Want...

Free
December 27, 2024 - January 9, 2025

Nosferatu

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with...
January 2025
January 3 - January 9

The Count of Monte Cristo

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The epic revenge story you know and love hits the big screen in a lavish, mega-budget blockbuster! A perfect post-holiday antidote to the more serious...
January 7 @ 6:00 pm

Fire Music

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented ONE NIGHT ONLY as part of CCA's long-running monthly series on music & film, Amplified! Although the free-jazz movement...

$15
January 10 - January 16

Vermiglio

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive...
January 17 - January 23

The Room Next Door

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom...
January 17 - January 23

Theater of Thought

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study...
January 23

The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Playing in the CCA Cinema Rescheduled screening, with all tickets from the cancelled Nov screening honored. TWO SCREENINGS ONLY! 3:50pm...

$25
January 24 - January 30

The Girl with the Needle

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself...
January 24 - January 30

Hard Truths

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family...
January 24 - February 6

The Brutalist

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to...
January 25 @ 1:00 pm

THE RIGHT TO READ

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

ONE TIME ONLY! Presented in partnership with May Center for Learning and the International Dyslexia Association-Southwest Branch (SWIDA). Panel discussion and reception to...
January 28 @ 6:00 pm

Bix: Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA's monthly Amplified series on music and film! ONE NIGHT ONLY! Cornetist / pianist / composer...

$15
January 31 - February 6

The Black Sea

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Exclusively at CCA! Inspired by Derrick B. Harden's travels to Bulgaria, The Black Sea is the transformative journey of a...
February 2025
February 7 - February 20

No Other Land

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a...
February 7 - February 20

I’m Still Here

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Playing EXCLUSIVELY at CCA! BRAZIL, 1971: Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of...

The Board of Directors for the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe (CCA) has voted to close the organization after serving the Santa Fe and northern New Mexico community on its forty-fourth year of operation. The decision was reached after careful consideration of options presented during its current strategic planning initiative.

“Closing a cherished, community organization like CCA is one of the most difficult decisions a board can make,” said David Muck, CCA Board Chair. “However, we simply couldn’t secure the level of individual donations required to achieve the high quality of programming and exhibitions envisioned by CCA’s professional staff and board of directors,” he continued.

Many nonprofits in the U.S. were hit hard by Covid and CCA is a good example. The CCA Cinema closed during Covid, and attendance was slow to resume, reflecting national downward trends in moviegoing post-Covid as reported in multiple news outlets, such as IndieWire and others. In 2023, the organization forecast the cinema to perform at only 50% of pre-Covid levels, resulting in monthly losses. Though grants and individual donations to the organization were up significantly in 2022 and 2023, they simply weren’t enough to make up the difference in the annual budget and cover both current and planned exhibitions and operations.

“This tough decision did not come lightly,” said Danyelle Means, CCA Executive Director and Head Curator. “For a nonprofit institution that operates independently of state support, the annual donations needed to sustainably continue operating was not enough, especially in the wake of challenges from pandemic closures and reduced attendance,” Means continued.

CCA did have its share of recent successes: CCA Executive Director Danyelle Means had secured a three-year grant of $100,000 per year from the Ford Foundation, with an option to renew for another three-year period. The organization was also the recipient of a $50,000 inaugural grant from Ruth Arts Foundation, as well as other granting organizations. Self-Determined, a 2022 CCA exhibition, was listed as one of the world’s Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022 by Hyperallergic magazine and CCA’s new monthly Closer Looks cinema series was a hit with film enthusiasts.

The CCA board of directors considered closing the organization in December of 2021, but voted to remain open in 2022 in hopes of a recovery post-Covid. However, despite the hard work of CCA staff and the accomplishments like the ones mentioned above, the shuttered period during which the cinema was closed proved too challenging to overcome. CCA Cinema’s final day of public operations is Thursday, April 6, and all upcoming CCA gallery exhibitions and public programs are cancelled.