Movies on the House
Your ticket to the greatest films you have never seen.
Some of the finest, provocative, beautifully made and stirring films don’t make it to the multiplex theaters. Or if they do, they disappear too quickly for most of us to see. MOTH is here to bring you, for free, some of the world’s greatest films that may have escaped your attention. MOTH screens films at the Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater and the UNF Gallery of Art on the UNF campus, and downtown at MOCA Jacksonville. Every month during Fall and Spring Semester you have a chance to see the finest achievements in cinema. We scour the underground, the festivals, and the world, to give you must-see films that will warm, singe or burn you. If you can take the heat, come to the light.
Following a hiatus for the safety of all during the COVID-19 pandemic, Movies on the House returns in full swing this fall semester. We would like you to follow our Recommended Films that we WOULD have loved to see with you.
History of MOTH
In 1998, UNF President Fretwell wanted to create a community centered on cinema. He established a fund that could provide students, faculty, staff and the wider community with great films to ponder, discuss, debate, be outraged and be moved by. He knew that film was the source of our most widely shared stories, and that watching films together helps us understand each other in a way that can never happen by watching films alone on our laptops, phones and televisions. With the generous and unwavering support of President John A. Delaney, and the future support of the University, MOTH will continue to bring us together around a love of film.
The series was first housed at Regal Cinema on Beach Blvd. Following a generous donation of 35mm film equipment from Regal Inc, we began projecting films on campus. Now with HD digital replacing 35mm film, we project films in Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater's newly renovated screening rooms, the UNF Gallery of Art, and in the screening room of MOCA Jacksonville downtown.
Upcoming Movies
Zoot Suit
The revolutionary musical “Zoot Suit” stands as one of the most noteworthy LatinX films in the history of American Cinema. Often hailed as the “father of Chicano theatre”, Luis Valdez brings to the big screen a vivid portrayal of a tumultuous episode in Los Ángeles: The Zoot Suit Riots of 1942. The film focuses on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, where 25 members of the 38th Street Gang was held responsible for the death of José Díaz. A classical in American cinema that is not to be overlooked!
Visit Zoot Suit on the IMDB website
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2024, 5 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OR ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Y tu mamá también/ And Your Mother, Too
Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón and with the celebrating performances of Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Y tu mamá también is one of the most celebrated movies of the New Mexican cinema. A coming-of-age story, the film follows the lives of the “Charolastras” Julio and Tenoch, who live a carefree summer adventure of sexual discovery towards “La Boca del Cielo”/” Heaven’s Mouth” an idyllic beach in Oaxaca. A film that not only bares bodies but also discloses the inequalities of Mexican society and politics.
Visit Y tu mamá también on the IMDB website
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024, 5 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OF ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Ya no estoy aquí / I’m No Longer Here
Spanish with English subtitles
A Border Movie, “I’m No Longer Here” is a movie about multiple identities. It is a film about finding oneself a thousand miles away from your hometown, through cumbia, punk aesthetics, graffiti, and migrant communities. Visually compelling, it shows the creative range of Fernando Frías, (a director known for the HBO series “Los Espookys”) while following a modern-day Ulises, a Mexican teenager finding its path in Queens, New York.
Visit Ya no estoy aquí on the IMDB website
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024, 5 P.M.
UNF GALLERY OF ART, BUILDING 2 / ROOM 1101
Past Movies
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Fall 2023 | Robinson Theater, UNF Gallery of Art, Sun-Ray Cinema | Wednesdays, Various Times
Day Movie September 13 Five Latin American Contemporary Shorts — MUESTRA 5C September 27 Titane October 18 Noise / Ruido March Huesera: The Bone Woman (cancelled) November 29 Saint Omer -
Spring 2023 | Robinson Theater, UNF Gallery of Art, Sun-Ray Cinema | Wednesdays, Various Times
Day Movie January 18 After Blue February 15 Dressed in Blue March 1 Call Her Ganda March 22 Eames: The Architect and the Painter March 29 Short Ethnographic Films April 6-9 Sleeping Giant Festival April 19 The Experimental City -
Fall 2022 | Robinson Theater, MOCA Jacksonville, UNF Gallery of Art | Wednesdays, Various Times
Day Movie October 5 No No Sleep October 13 La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House) October 19 The Lavender Scare -
Spring 2020 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Day Movie January 15 Eddie Murphy: Raw January 29 Hail Satan? February 12 The Lighthouse February 26 Woman at War March 11 The Aristocrats March 25 Attack the Block (Canceled) April 8 One Cut of the Dead -
Spring 2020 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Day Movie January 9 Kusama: Infinity January 30 A Fantastic Woman February 6 The Queen February 27 Call Me By Your Name March 5 In Fabric March 12 Frida April 2 An Unmarried Woman -
Fall 2019 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film August 28 Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf September 11 The Souvenir September 25 God's Own Country october 9 Whores on Film October 23 A Ghost Story November 6 Border Politics November 20 First Reformed December 4 Dogman -
Fall 2019 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film September 5 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) September 19 Human Flow (2017) October 3 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973) october 17 Entre Nos (2009) October 31 The Vanishing (1988) November 14 A Touch of Sin (2013) November 21 Stalker (1979) December 12 A Season in France (2017) -
Spring 2019 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film January 16 The Wolfpack January 30 Human Flow February 13 Blade Runner 2049 February 27 Mandy March 13 We the Animals March 27 Saving Capitalism April 10 Madeline's Madeline -
Spring 2019 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film January 10 13th January 17 Blade Runner, Final Cut October 11 I Am Not Your Negro October 25 Flight of the Red Balloon November 8 Faces Places December 6 Bill Cunningham in New York -
Fall 2018 | Robinson Theater | Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Date Film September 5 Colossal September 19 Pinocchio October 3 Land of Mine October 17 November October 31 Raw November 14 Moonlight November 28 The Transfiguration -
Fall 2018 | MOCA Jacksonville | Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Date Film September 13 Girl Without Hands September 27 Visage October 11 I Am Not Your Negro October 25 Flight of the Red Balloon November 8 Faces Places December 6 Bill Cunningham in New York -
Spring 2013
Date Film January 17 Adanggaman January 31 After Innocence February 14 Curling February 28 A Housekeeper March 14 Demonlover March 28 Intimate Stories April 11 Songs from the Second Floor -
Fall 2012
Date Film August 23 13 Assassins September 6 Turn Me On, Dammit! September 20 Sin Nombre October 4 God Grew Tired of Us October 18 We Were Here November 1 The Sky Turns November 15 Trembling Before G-d November 29 Passione -
Spring 2012
Date Film January 12 Margin Call January 26 Benda Bilili! February 9 Incendies February 23 Somewhere March 8 Everybody's Famous March 22 The Future April 5 The Hedgehog April 19 Bellflower -
Fall 2011
Date Film August 25 Biutiful September 8 Howl September 22 Cave of Forgotten Dreams October 6 The Visitor October 20 Meek's Cutoff November 3 The Tillman Story November 17 Stone December 1 Four Lions -
Spring 2011
Date Film January 13 Winter's Bone January 27 Monsters February 10 Mother February 24 Night Catches Us March 10 All Good Things March 24 A Film Unfinished April 7 Inside Job April 21 Lebanon
