Collection Highlights Drop-In Tour
2026-03-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission.
For more information, visit our tours page.

Sound of Falling at Speed Cinema
2026-03-27 18:00 - 20:30
Sound of Falling
Directed by Mascha Schilinski

Friday, March 27, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance.”—Damon Wise, Deadline
In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent Sound of Falling, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.
Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.
Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future? 2025, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 155 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Speed Chat Spot
2026-03-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-29 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-05 15:00 - 16:00
Check out Speed Chat Spots. During this time frame a friendly docent will be available to chat about our collection, for specific Chat Spot locations check in with Guest Services in the Front Lobby upon arrival.

Sound of Falling at Speed Cinema
2026-03-28 15:00 - 17:30
Sound of Falling
Directed by Mascha Schilinski

Saturday, March 28, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance.”—Damon Wise, Deadline
In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent Sound of Falling, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.
Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.
Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future? 2025, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 155 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Natchez at Speed Cinema
2026-03-28 18:00 - 19:30
Natchez
Directed by Suzannah Herbert
Saturday, March 28, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A piercing portrait of a Mississippi town’s Antebellum tourism industry.” — Ross McIndoe, Slant
Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all. 2025, U.S., DCP, 86 minutes.

Small Change (L’argent de poche) at Speed Cinema
2026-03-29 12:30 - 14:30
2026 UofL French Film Festival
Small Change (L’argent de poche)
Directed by François Truffaut
Sunday, March 29, 12:30 pm CINEMA + | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed and Alliance Française members| Free for UofL students, faculty, and staff
“Francois Truffaut’s series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity – a poetic comedy that’s really funny.”—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Too long absent from the big screen, Small Change is one of Truffaut’s most poetic and personal films, a radiant celebration of the world of childhood. Through a series of loosely connected vignettes in a small city in southern France, a group of children, from infants to adolescents, experience the joys and trials of being young. “Children exist in a state of grace,” as a young mother observes. “They pass untouched through dangers that would destroy an adult.” 1976, France, 35mm, in French with English subtitles, 104 minutes. Rated PG.
CINEMA+ with an introduction and post-screening discussion.

Natchez at Speed Cinema
2026-03-29 15:30 - 17:00
Natchez
Directed by Suzannah Herbert
Sunday, March 29, 3:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A piercing portrait of a Mississippi town’s Antebellum tourism industry.” — Ross McIndoe, Slant
Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all. 2025, U.S., DCP, 86 minutes.

Opening day for "Your “Boy,” Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller"
2026-04-02 10:00 - 17:00
April 2, 2026 – July 26, 2026
Born in Tokyo in 1895 to American parents, Lilian “Jack” Miller moved fluidly across nations, cultures, and identities. Trained in traditional Japanese artmaking techniques, she became one of the few American artists working in Japan to fully take up the modern woodblock printmaking for which she is best known.
Miller, known to family and friends as “Jack,” defied social convention with her androgynous style, independent spirit, and deeply personal work. Her prints, often portraying a variety of Japanese and Korean subjects, reflect the life of a queer artist who transcended aesthetic and societal boundaries, bringing us new perspectives and blended traditions. Featuring nine prints from the Speed’s collection, this exhibition reintroduces Miller as a modern visionary whose art has reshaped inherited traditions and whose life and work continue to engage questions of gender, geography, and artistic practice.
2026 Season Exhibition Sponsors

Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein

Susan Dabney Lavin and Allan Lavin

Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman

Debra and Ronald Murphy

Dr. Victoria Phillips and Travis Anderson

Sociable Weaver Foundation

Dont Look Back at Speed Cinema
2026-04-02 18:00 - 19:30
Dont Look Back
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker
Thursday, April 2, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed and LPM members
“Both a great concert movie and an amazing documentary of the mid-60s cutting edge pop culture.”—Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
Featuring some of Dylan’s most famous songs, including “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Dont Look Back is a radically conceived portrait of an American icon that has influenced decades of vérité behind-the-scenes documentaries. 1967, U.S., DCP, 96 minutes. Recommended for 15+
Co-presented with WFPK. Bob Dylan will appear in concert Monday, April 6 at the Louisville Palace.

Days and Nights in the Forest sat Speed Cinema
2026-04-03 18:00 - 20:00
Days and Nights in the Forest
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Saturday, April 3, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Packed with cultural references and sly satire, this is also a hugely entertaining comic romp.”—David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale.
Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends—Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh)—drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism.
Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), Days and Nights in the Forest touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak. 1970, India, 4K DCP, in Bengali with English subtitles, 116 minutes. Recommended for 14+.
These screenings will include a theatres-only pre-recorded introduction from director Wes Anderson.
Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.

Serpent’s Path (1998) and Chime (2024) at Speed Cinema
2026-04-03 18:00 - 20:00
Serpent’s Path (1998) and Chime (2024)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Friday, April 3, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
A masterclass in escalating dread and shocking violence, Chime reaffirms Kiyoshi Kurosawa as one of modern horror’s most innovative and unpredictable visionaries. During a class, culinary instructor Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) witnesses the suicide of a young student (Seiichi Kohinata), driven to insanity by what he claims is a chiming sound that controls his mind. Soon, Matsuoka begins hearing it, too, and descends into a mental abyss that warps his perception of reality and gives vent to his darkest impulses. Expertly blending psychological portraiture and hallucinatory mystery, Kurosawa offers a chilling depiction of madness that interrogates the very stability of our everyday existence, with the director’s patented creeping tracking shots and complex sound design fashioning an immersively terrifying and unnerving cinematic experience. 2024, Japan, DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles, 45 minutes.
Straight off Cure (1997), his international breakthrough, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed two low-budget films using the same basic premise and the same lead actor (Sho Aikawa) to completely different ends. The experiment first resulted in Serpent’s Path (1998, later remade in 2024), a dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, Serpent’s Path is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart. 1998, Japan, DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles, 85 minutes. Recommended for 17+. Total running time: 130 minutes.

April Adult Workshop - Plein Air Watercolor
2026-04-04 10:30 - 12:30
April 4th, 2026
Facilitated by: Emily Fautz
Project: Plein Air Watercolor: A Relaxed Painting Workshop

SOLD OUT

Come enjoy a laid-back watercolor workshop as you soak in the sights of our art park and paint along with us. All materials are provided, and no experience is needed. We’ll be painting outdoors to enjoy the fresh air, and if rain rolls in, we’ll move things inside and keep the creativity flowing.

Emily Fautz is a Louisville-based painter and a 2015 graduate of the University of Louisville with a BA in Studio Art. Since 2013, she has refined a dual specialty in acrylic and watercolor, focusing on the intersection of botanical illustration and creature design. Her work blends technical precision with imaginative storytelling, utilizing the unique properties of water media to explore organic textures and fluid forms. As an educator for the Speed Art Museum, Emily guides students through the complexities of water control and detail work, helping them translate the natural world and creative elements onto the page.

Days and Nights in the Forest sat Speed Cinema
2026-04-04 15:00 - 17:00
Days and Nights in the Forest
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Sunday, April 4, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Packed with cultural references and sly satire, this is also a hugely entertaining comic romp.”—David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale.
Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends—Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh)—drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism.
Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), Days and Nights in the Forest touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak. 1970, India, 4K DCP, in Bengali with English subtitles, 116 minutes. Recommended for 14+.
These screenings will include a theatres-only pre-recorded introduction from director Wes Anderson.
Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.

Serpent’s Path (1998) and Chime (2024) at Speed Cinema
2026-04-04 15:00 - 17:00
Serpent’s Path (1998) and Chime (2024)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Saturday, April 4, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
A masterclass in escalating dread and shocking violence, Chime reaffirms Kiyoshi Kurosawa as one of modern horror’s most innovative and unpredictable visionaries. During a class, culinary instructor Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) witnesses the suicide of a young student (Seiichi Kohinata), driven to insanity by what he claims is a chiming sound that controls his mind. Soon, Matsuoka begins hearing it, too, and descends into a mental abyss that warps his perception of reality and gives vent to his darkest impulses. Expertly blending psychological portraiture and hallucinatory mystery, Kurosawa offers a chilling depiction of madness that interrogates the very stability of our everyday existence, with the director’s patented creeping tracking shots and complex sound design fashioning an immersively terrifying and unnerving cinematic experience. 2024, Japan, DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles, 45 minutes.
Straight off Cure (1997), his international breakthrough, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed two low-budget films using the same basic premise and the same lead actor (Sho Aikawa) to completely different ends. The experiment first resulted in Serpent’s Path (1998, later remade in 2024), a dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, Serpent’s Path is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart. 1998, Japan, DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles, 85 minutes. Recommended for 17+. Total running time: 130 minutes.

Chungking Express at Speed Cinema
2026-04-08 18:00 - 19:30
Deeper Viewing/Urban Intimacies
Chungking Express
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Wednesday, April 8, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members | Free for UofL students, faculty, and staff
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.
Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works.
Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. 1994, Hong Kong, 4K DCP, in Cantonese with English subtitles, 102 minutes. Recommended for 16+.
Co-presented with the Department of English, UofL and featuring a post-screening discussion led by Assistant Professors Laura Tscherry and Savannah Trent, with special guest Zikai Pang (Indiana University), an expert on urban spaces in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Urban Intimacies is a four-part screening and conversation series presented by Tscherry and Trent. The series brings together films about urban encounters and their consequences, to trace how representation of the city and its inhabitants have changed over time and cultural contexts, an examines how these encounters can contribute to our understanding of the complex interplay of race, class, sexuality, and space in homemaking and kinmaking.

Opening day for "vanessa german: ...do you remember when you were the sky?"
2026-04-10 10:00 - 17:00
April 10 – June 28, 2026
Chellgren Gallery
This spring, artist vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP). This presentation of new work marks the culmination of german’s social- and community-based project in Louisville, which has unfolded over months of research, public discussion, and collaboration with local communities.
For her participation in the SGVAP, german began with research and community engagement across Louisville, including meetings with local historians at the Portland Museum, studio visits with University of Louisville sculpture students, and time spent in spiritual meditation at the Ohio River. These experiences informed a three-day performance series, Future Histories of Emancipation, in October 2025, centered on the history of the Colored Girls Dormitory at the Louisville Industrial School of Reform (now known as Gottschalk Hall on the campus of the University of Louisville, minutes from the Museum). This site, largely erased from public memory, was once home to fifteen girls, six of whom escaped in 1913. Through re-imagining their stories, german illuminates a legacy of resistance, self-determination, and courage—connecting past and present in profound and spiritual ways.
…do you remember when you were the sky? highlights german’s signature assemblage sculptural practice. Combining a vast range of materials—from rope, mineral crystals, skateboards, hand-sewn quilts, and doll parts to cowrie shells sourced during her nationwide travels—the sculptures in this exhibition become active embodiments of young girls in motion. The exhibition presents a phantasmagorical scene that invokes both dreams and nightmares: figures leap, some fall, and others soar, forming a living installation that binds local history to new imaginative terrains. These works call us to examine the immediacy of our own lives, as well as the radical acts toward freedom we too may choose to participate in. Artworks generated in collaboration with community members during german’s October performances have been integrated into this new body of work, making Louisville residents themselves co-creators of this unique exhibition.
Like Sam Gilliam, german pushes the boundaries of materials, storytelling, and form. Her Louisville project extends the mission of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program: to bring nationally celebrated artists to Louisville, spark meaningful public participation, and create site-responsive artworks.
This exhibition is organized by Diallo Simon-Ponte, Sam Gilliam Assistant Curator of Artist Programs. Additional support is provided by Taleah Gipson, Curatorial Administrative Assistant, Tyler Blackwell, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Adia Elam, Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program Intern.
Support for the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program is provided by The Sam Gilliam Foundation.

Nadja at Speed Cinema
2026-04-10 18:00 - 19:30
Almereyda X 2/4K Restoration
Nadja
Directed by Michael Almereyda
Friday, April 10, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Michael Almereyda’s insanely brilliant fantasia on the Dracula legend.”—Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Merging elements from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda).
Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim’s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania.
The film was executive produced by David Lynch and the restoration was conducted from the 35mm answer print that was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994—three minutes longer than the commercial release. 1994, U.S., 4K DCP, 93 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Speed Family: Film + Fun
2026-04-11 10:00 - 12:00
Speed Family: Film + Fun | A monthly Saturday morning for curious kids and their grown-ups
Speed Family is a relaxed Saturday morning program for children and the adults who care for them. Each month includes a family-friendly film, story time, and hands-on artmaking, with time to explore together at an easy pace. The program is welcoming to strollers, sensory needs, and first-time museum visitors, and is designed to help families build simple, joyful routines around art and creativity. This is a ticketed event and gallery admission is not included.
Please use the Cinema entrance for this programming
BUY TICKETS
My Neighbor Totoro
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Saturday, April 11,
Doors open at 10 am
Film starts at 10:30 am
$18/non-member adult, $8 non-member child
$15/Speed member adult, $5 per member child
“This inspirationally lovely and gentle film has a real claim to be Miyazaki’s masterpiece.”—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
This acclaimed animated tale by director Hayao Miyazaki follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they settle into an old country house with their father and wait for their mother to recover from an illness in an area hospital.
As the sisters explore their new home, they encounter and befriend playful spirits in their house and the nearby forest, most notably the massive cuddly creature known as Totoro. 1988/2004, Japan, DCP, dubbed in English, 86 minutes. Rated G.
Speed Family: Fim + Fun includes snacks for the film, free-play in Art Sparks, and a family art-making activity after the screening
NOTE: The Japanese-language version of My Neighbor Totoro is playing as part of Essential Cinema on Thursday, April 16. More information and tickets are available here .
This ticket does not include general admission to the Museum
