The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) at Speed Cinema
2026-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Science on Screen®
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Directed by Julian Schnabel
Thursday, April 23, 6 pm CINEMA + | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Nothing less than the rebirth of the cinema.”—David Benby, The New Yorker
Experience the triumphant tale of renowned Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, a man whose love of life and soaring vision shaped his will to a achieve a life without boundaries. Paralyzed after a stroke except for the use of his left eye, Bauby eloquently shared his story with the world by blinking words he could no longer speak. 2007, France/U.S., DCP, in French with English subtitles, 112 minutes. Rated PG-13.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion by Mariajose Metcalfe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology at UofL. Prof Metcalfe leads the Metcalfe Lab, which studies how injured neural circuits can be repaired after spinal cord injury (SCI).
An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.

Collection Highlights Drop-In Tour
2026-04-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-09 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-10 13:00 - 14:00
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.

Steal This Story, Please! at Speed Cinema
2026-04-24 18:00 - 19:30
Steal This Story, Please!
Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Friday, April 24, 6 pm, CINEMA+ | BUY TICKETS

With a post-screening panel organized by Forward Radio WFMP 106.5 FM featuring Dr. Patty Payette, a board member and co-host of Critical Thinking For Everyone; Jim Johnso, co-founder of Forward Radio and host the weekly program, Solutions to Violence; and moderator Justin Mog, host of Sustainability Now.
“Goodman’s story offers a compelling reminder that smart, honest, and accurate reporting is a duty, not business.”—Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press—and on truth itself.
Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? 2025, U.S., DCP, 98 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Museum Closed | Cinema Open
2026-04-25
The Speed will be closed to the public today to due to the Derby Marathon race. The Speed Cinema is open, please use the south Cinema entrance for entry.
PLAN YOUR VISIT

Steal This Story, Please! at Speed Cinema
2026-04-25 15:00 - 16:30
Steal This Story, Please!
Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Saturday, April 25, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
NOTE: For the April 25 screenings, please enter through the south Cinema entrance. Our main Museum entrance will be closed to the public.

“Goodman’s story offers a compelling reminder that smart, honest, and accurate reporting is a duty, not business.”—Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press—and on truth itself.
Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? 2025, U.S., DCP, 98 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Steal This Story, Please! at Speed Cinema
2026-04-25 18:00 - 19:30
Steal This Story, Please!
Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Saturday, April 25, 6 pm, CINEMA+ | BUY TICKETS
With a post-screening panel organized by WXOX
CINEMA+ with a post-screening panel organized by Art FM/97.1 WXOX featuring Aron Conaway, DJ; Morgan Dhée, Co-Host of Sounds Good; Jed Schneider, Host of Garage Sounds; and Panel Moderator Sharon Scott, Co-Founder and General Manager of Art FM/97.1 WXOX.
NOTE: For the April 25 screenings, please enter through the south Cinema entrance. Our main Museum entrance will be closed to the public.

“Goodman’s story offers a compelling reminder that smart, honest, and accurate reporting is a duty, not business.”—Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press—and on truth itself.
Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? 2025, U.S., DCP, 98 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Water and Power at Speed Cinema
2026-04-26 13:00 - 14:00
Lamplightings
Water and Power
Directed by Pat O’Neill
Sunday, April 26, 1 pm
Free, first come, first served
“The continuous shifts and surprises that lie at the heart of the film’s form make a kind of grand metaphor for the never-ending change that underlies nature, civilization and the multiple symbiotic interchanges between them.”—Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
Its title comes from the Los Angeles water district. Much of the film was shot in the Owens Valley and in an old office building in downtown LA and is metaphorically about the exchange of energy between two places. It is also about water, in all of its states, and about cyclical motion: the planets, the tides, the implied rotation of the camera on its axis, and the repetitive actions of the performers. There are also quotations from older movies and their soundtracks: at times their landscapes become continuous with those of the present. Human habitation in this wilderness is tenuous and risky. 1989, U.S., 35mm, 54 minutes. Recommended for 16+

Speed Chat Spot
2026-04-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-26 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-09 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-10 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.

Steal This Story, Please! at Speed Cinema
2026-04-26 15:00 - 16:30
Steal This Story, Please!
Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Sunday, April 26, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
“Goodman’s story offers a compelling reminder that smart, honest, and accurate reporting is a duty, not business.”—Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press—and on truth itself.
Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? 2025, U.S., DCP, 98 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Museum Closed
2026-05-01
The Speed will be closed to the public today for the celebration of the Kentucky Oaks race. We will be back open with regular hours, May 3.
PLAN YOUR VISIT

Museum Closed
2026-05-02
The Speed will be closed to the public today for the celebration of the Kentucky Derby race. We will be back open with regular hours, May 3.
PLAN YOUR VISIT

WTO/99 at Speed Cinema
2026-05-03 13:00 - 14:30
WTO/99
Directed by Ian Bell
Sunday, May 3, 1 pm, CINEMA+ | BUY TICKETS
With a post-screening community conversation moderated by Angela D. Storey, Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville.
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Watching WTO/99 is like peering into a portal to the future.”—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
From November 30 to December 3 1999, tens of thousands of people occupied the streets of downtown Seattle to make known their concerns about the existence of the World Trade Organization and its impacts on the environment, human rights, and labor in the largest protests against economic globalization the U.S. has ever seen.
The protests brought together people from divergent sections of society—anarchists, environmentalists, labor unions, consumer protection advocates, pro-democracy groups, and even religious organizations. These protestors gathered in direct action hoping to dissuade world leadership from continued support of the WTO and strived to focus the public’s attention to the kind of future the WTO would bring forth.
Building from a thousand-hour archive, which includes more than 400 hours of never-before-seen footage, WTO/99 reanimates the ideological conflicts that drew thousands to the streets of Seattle in hopes for a better future. The film is an immersive visual artifact of a week that brought 40,000 people together to warn of environmental collapse, the vanishing middle class, and what the full inclusion of China in the World Trade Organization would mean for our collective future. The protesters—seen as a rabble-rousing nuisance at the time, yet appearing prophetic today—were met with extreme violence by a militarized police force, an all-too-fitting way to usher in a new century; one that is now defined by the U.S. failure to address climate change and increasing state aggression. 2025, U.S., DCP, 100 minutes. Recommended for 15+

Hello Dankness at Speed Cinema
2026-05-03 15:30 - 17:00
Hello Dankness
Directed by Soda Jerk
Sunday, May 3, 3:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Hello Dankness belongs to a venerable underground-film tradition of treating refracted entertainment as a mirror for society.”—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Hello Dankness is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, and the mythologies and lore that took root around it. Taking form as a suburban stoner musical, the film follows a neighborhood through these years as consensus reality disintegrates into conspiracy and other contagions. What unfolds is a rogue retelling of history in which hotdogs debate the culture wars, trashcans preach QAnon, zombies rally for revolution, and real events are refashioned as Broadway bangers from Cats, Les Miserables, Annie, and The Phantom of the Opera.
There are songs and dancing, moments of menace and melancholy, shitposting and deep sincerity. Created with Soda Jerk’s signature methodology, Hello Dankness is entirely composed of sampled media. Utilizing extensive rotoscoping and digital VFX, the feature length narrative has been grafted together from almost one thousand film, television and audio sources.
Begun in 2016 and labored on throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Hello Dankness is a record of the time, written from the time. The Hollywood Reporter announced Hello Dankness as ”the most original and bizarrely elevating movie of the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.”
The cast of characters include Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Bruce Dern, Ice Cube, Wayne and Garth, Maya and Ana, Rue and Jules, Seth Rogen and Reyn Doi. American politicians play themselves, with Jesse Eisenberg in the role of Mark Zuckerberg, and The Phantom of the Opera as Vladimir Putin. 2022, Australia, DCP, 70 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Speed Social: Connect + Inspire
2026-05-07 17:00 - 19:00
Speed Social: Connect + Inspire
A monthly evening gathering for adults to unwind and create
Cost: $18/non-member, $15/member

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Speed Social is a relaxed evening program for adults to connect, sketch, and socialize. Guests can enjoy music, drinks, and an informal drawing session. No instruction is required—just time to relax, be creative, and enjoy art in a social, welcoming atmosphere. Held after museum hours. Gallery admission is not included. Cash bar provided by Marigold Catering Co.
May Programming
Live model drawing session and a performance/intimate conversation connecting Echoes on the Ohio with local performers Heather Summers, Lacey Guthrie, and Nadia Ramlagan
Beginning at 5:30 pm, join us for an intimate evening of performance and conversation featuring Heather Summers, Lacey Guthrie, and Nadia Ramlagan. Through folk storytelling, sound as art, and reflections on inherited trauma, the program unfolds in dialogue with the sound work Sunset Song (2003) by Susan Philipsz featuring the ballad Banks of the Ohio, which will resonate throughout the evening. Together, these voices create a space for listening, memory, and collective reflection. In addition to the performance and discussion, we will host a live model drawing session in the Atrium and a cash bar from Marigold, with non-alcoholic options. This event is 18+
Performer Bios

Lacey Guthrie is a songwriter and musician from rural Indiana, now living in Louisville, Kentucky for about 20 years. Her project roster has moved through a lot of sounds over the years, from psych and noise to prog, punk, folk, and dream pop, but she always finds herself on the hook of melody and emotion. She looks at her solo project as a limitless, genre-less composition and self-expression playground. Solo records include The King of Holding Onto Things (2021) and Flower-Eating Monster (2024), with a new not-yet-titled album in the works. She’s also in a band called duchess with Katie Peabody, Victoria Fisher, and Todd Cook that combines organic folk themes with post-punk and experimental elements. Appalachian folk traditions and balladry have shown up only a handful of times in her own performances, but she’s spent most of her musical life in close company with people who carry those traditions forward. It’s been part of the soundtrack to life in Kentucky, and has woven itself into how she hears things and how she writes. In the last few years she’s been making large-scale textile art pieces, and has really been enjoying exploring that medium.

Heather Summers is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist living in New Albany, Indiana. Heather’s deep love for traditional old-time fiddle and banjo tunes and ballads originating in the British Isles influence her songwriting and instrumentation style. Her songs invoke themes of the natural world to allow exploration of humanity, trauma, and healing. In 2018 she recorded a self titled album as one half of The Other Years on No Quarter Records. in 2020, her song Red Tailed Hawk was covered and recorded by Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Bill Callahan.

Louisville multi-instrumentalist and singer Nadia Ramlagan grew up in Maryland where she immersed herself in local folk music such as Ola Belle Reed and her nephews, Hugh and Zane Campbell. She was first drawn to the sounds of old time banjo and fiddle traveling through West Virginia more than a decade ago. She currently plays with Louisville-based old time trio Man Eater (Grace Rogers, Blakeley Burger), and Kentucky Wild Horse (John Harrod).

Kontinental ‘25 at Speed Cinema
2026-05-08 18:00 - 19:30
Kontinental ‘25
Directed by Radu Jude
Friday, May 8, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A smart, scathing masterwork about our modern madness.” —Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
Celebrated writer/director Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World) is back with a sharp critique of capitalism, housing, labor, and morality with his typical outrageous and irreverent comedic approach. Shot on an iPhone over the course of 10 days, he cements his position as one of the most nimble and talented contemporary film talents.
When Orsolya oversees the eviction of a local elderly man in Cluj, Transylvania, the unintended consequences come to shatter her and her understanding of her place in society. Spiraling into an existential crisis, she traverses the city, meeting with various people in her life — her husband, an old friend, her former student, a priest — to consider and reconcile her place in an increasingly maddening modern world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. 2025, Romania, DCP, in Romanian with English subtitles, 109 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Speed Family: Film + Fun
2026-05-09 10:00 - 14:00
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
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Brave
Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Saturday, May 9, 10:30 am
$18/non-member adult, $8 non-member child
$15/Speed member adult, $5 per member child
“Brave is a rousing, gorgeously animated good time.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Bursting with heart, unforgettable characters, and Pixar’s signature humor, Brave is rich entertainment for the whole family. Take a heroic journey with Merida, a skilled archer and headstrong daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the unruly and uproarious lords of the land. When her actions inadvertently unleash chaos in the kingdom, she must harness all of her skills and resources, including her clever and mischievous triplet brothers, to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late, and discover the meaning of true bravery. 2012, U.S., DCP, 93 minutes. Rated PG.

American Dream at Speed Cinema
2026-05-09 15:00 - 16:30
Barbara Kopple X 2/New 4K Restoration
American Dream
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Saturday, May 9, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A bracing hybrid, a documentary and a lamentation for those who create the country’s wealth at the cost of their own dignity.” —The Washington Post
Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions and drastic wage cuts, Austin’s Local P-9 went against the advice of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and, with the help of labor activist Ray Rogers’s campaign to damage the meatpacking giant’s public reputation, conducted a nearly yearlong walkout. But as the strike dragged on, some workers found themselves desperate to make ends meet and ready to cross the picket line, dividing a community already betrayed by a once progressive company and roiled by blockades, riots, and the intervention of the National Guard. Following up her landmark documentary Harlan County USA with another engrossing report from the trenches of working-class America, Kopple poignantly captures the human and political costs of one of the most significant setbacks to organized labor amid the unchecked corporatism of the Reaganomics era. 1990, U.S., DCP, 98 minutes. Rated PG-13.
Supervised and approved by director Barbara Kopple, this 4K digital restoration was undertaken by Janus Films and the Criterion Collection from a scan of the 16 mm internegative. The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from the 35 mm DME magnetic track.

Kontinental ‘25 at Speed Cinema
2026-05-09 18:00 - 19:30
Kontinental ‘25
Directed by Radu Jude
Saturday, May 9, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A smart, scathing masterwork about our modern madness.” —Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
Celebrated writer/director Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World) is back with a sharp critique of capitalism, housing, labor, and morality with his typical outrageous and irreverent comedic approach. Shot on an iPhone over the course of 10 days, he cements his position as one of the most nimble and talented contemporary film talents.
When Orsolya oversees the eviction of a local elderly man in Cluj, Transylvania, the unintended consequences come to shatter her and her understanding of her place in society. Spiraling into an existential crisis, she traverses the city, meeting with various people in her life — her husband, an old friend, her former student, a priest — to consider and reconcile her place in an increasingly maddening modern world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. 2025, Romania, DCP, in Romanian with English subtitles, 109 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Harlan County USA at Speed Cinema
2026-05-10 15:00 - 16:30
Barbara Kopple X 2/New 4K Restoration
Harlan County USA
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Sunday, May 10, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Articulate, indomitable, courageous… the film retains all its power.” —Roger Ebert
Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. 1976, U.S., DCP, 103 minutes. Rated PG.
