Durham Cinematheque

11/10/2025

11/05/2025

Eno House Movie Nights wraps up 2025 a bit early with WINTERTIME FUN AND SAFETY on Saturday, November 15th. This wacky show includes bits from all kinds of archival films, including "Nanook of the North" (Robert Flaherty, 1922) and "The Gold Rush" (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) as well as cartoons, television commercials, and educational films, with some Double Projector Trickery thrown in. Good for all ages. Free firewood will be given away at this show, limit one piece per patron, please.

Eno House is located at 903 Eno Street in Hillsborough. Show starts at 8:00, doors open at 7:30. BYOB. Tickets are $10; 18 and under is $5; 12 and under free with an adult. As always, the presentation is 16mm film from the Durham Cinematheque collection.

09/21/2025

Hey folks, I will be doing a Sunday morning coffee talk "Forgotten Formats" at Photo Farm on October 26, a show and tell about magic lanterns, a variety of motion picture formats (Polavision!), and lots of other Image Machines. Reservations required, space is limited, sign up today! Pictured here is a chromotrope, a simple mechanical magic lantern slide, circa 1900.

Join experimental filmmaker, film collector, and analog media historian Tom Whiteside for his first-ever coffee talk at PHOTO FARM. Tom takes us through an idiosyncratic discussion and demonstration of unusual photographic formats and gadgets, both still and moving, that were once common but are not

09/07/2025

Next Eno House Movie Night is Saturday September 20 - SPUTNIK AND THE SPACE RACE. Archival film program about the start of the space age, including home movie footage of Robert Goddard's first rockets. Image here is the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

09/05/2025

Tomorrow night (Sept 6) at Eno House Movie Nights - MAYBE YOU SHOULD QUIT, an archival film program about smoking cessation. Located at 903 Eno Street in Hillsborough. 8:00, $10, BYOB.

08/24/2025

Next Eno House Movie Night is "Maybe You Should Quit."
It's about smoking cessation. Saturday September 6.

08/23/2025

Tonight at Eno House Movie Night - Social History of Cars. Eight o'clock, ten bucks, 903 Eno Street in Hillsborough.

08/14/2025

Get behind the wheel on Saturday August 23 and come see "Social History of Cars" at Eno House Movie Night, 8:00, 903 Eno Street in Hillsborough. Tickets $10, BYOB.

08/05/2025

Eno House Movie Nights returns on Saturday August 23 with
"The Social History of Cars."
Stay tuned.

04/22/2025

Eno House Movie Nights continues this Saturday, April 26, with "1930's/1960's." This program looks at these two American decades with a selection of short films and clips from longer ones. The 1930's are examined in newsreel footage from the brilliant and thoughtful compilation film "America Lost and Found" (Lance Bird and Tom Johnson, 1981) and the 1960's in Charles Braverman's "The Sixties," made from a wide variety of visual material with his trademark fast cutting - it's the 1960's, right? Rounding out the program are 1960's television commercials, a bit of 1930's anarchic satire from the Marx Brothers, and other bits of cinematic flotsam and jetsam. The show is presented in 16mm.

"1930's/1960's" will be shown at 8:00 at Eno House, located at 903 Eno Street in Hillsborough. Tickets are $10; 18 and under is $5; 12 and under is free with adult. Doors open at 7:30. BYOB.