Watch award-winning films at the Mayflower Arts Center Virtual Theater!
What is Virtual Theater?
Thanks to a partnership with several independent movie distributors, we are excited to be bringing you movies virtually from the Mayflower! This is an opportunity for you to DIRECTLY support our local theater during these uncertain times. It is still our goal to bring you well-made and thought-provoking features, retros, indies, and documentaries — films that not only allow us time to escape, but stir the soul and ignite our creativity and imagination. Come experience a new way to screen movies with us... in the comfort and safety of your own home!
THEATER 1 - Opens March 12
THE INHERITANCE (2020)
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus—based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group—weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonalties between politics, humor, and philosophy, with Black authors and radicals at its edges, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.
Presented by Grasshopper Film and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 2 - Now Showing
WOMEN COMPOSERS (2018)
Highlights the historical and personal circumstances under which three remarkable women (Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel) created their works in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Presented by Film Movement and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 3 - Opens March 19
ROSE PLAYS JULIE (2019)
In this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, a young woman seeks out her birth mother, inadvertently triggering a string of events which change both their lives.
Presented by Film Movement and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 4 - Opens April 9
MALNI-TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (2020)
A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, małni (pronounced: moth-nee) – towards the ocean, towards the shore follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside. At its center are Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, who take separate paths contemplating their afterlife, rebirth, and death. Probing questions about humanity’s place on earth and other worlds, Sky Hopkina’s film will have audiences thinking (and dreaming) about it long after.
Presented by Grasshopper Film and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THE INHERITANCE (2020)
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus—based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group—weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonalties between politics, humor, and philosophy, with Black authors and radicals at its edges, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.
Presented by Grasshopper Film and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 2 - Now Showing
WOMEN COMPOSERS (2018)
Highlights the historical and personal circumstances under which three remarkable women (Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel) created their works in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Presented by Film Movement and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 3 - Opens March 19
ROSE PLAYS JULIE (2019)
In this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, a young woman seeks out her birth mother, inadvertently triggering a string of events which change both their lives.
Presented by Film Movement and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
THEATER 4 - Opens April 9
MALNI-TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (2020)
A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, małni (pronounced: moth-nee) – towards the ocean, towards the shore follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside. At its center are Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, who take separate paths contemplating their afterlife, rebirth, and death. Probing questions about humanity’s place on earth and other worlds, Sky Hopkina’s film will have audiences thinking (and dreaming) about it long after.
Presented by Grasshopper Film and Mayflower Arts Center VIRTUAL Theater
Have an idea for a movie screening? Email us at MayflowerArtsCenter@gmail.com and let us know!
