Providence Public Library

Attend a film screening of Daniel Moshel's Login 2 Life (2011) as part of Portals: History of the Future Film Series.

This event features a carnival of short stories and surprises by local artists and writers based on the PPL Special Collections!​ ​Plus the release of the giant, full color, Special Collections-themed issue of the Providence Sunday Wipeout!!!

The Cable Car Cinema and the Providence Center for Media Culture in collaboration with the Providence Public Library present Portals: History of the Future Film Series. Join them for a screening of Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973).

Providence Public Library Auditorium (3rd floor) Dr. Who and the Daleks, 1965 Directed by Gordon Flemyng Written by Terry Nation and Milton Subotsky Starring Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box is accidentally activated by its inventor, Scientist Dr. Who. Inadvertently, he and his companions are […]

Francine Jackson, Ladd Observatory “In August of 1853, two trains collided in Central Falls, Rhode Island. This incident not only was the first of its kind ever to be photographed, but it also became the impetus for the complete restructuring of time.” Francine Jackson is the Staff Astronomer for Ladd Observatory, and writes weekly notes […]

Things to Come, 1936, Drama Directed by William Cameron Menzies Written by H.G. Wells Starring Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson United Kingdom 100 minutes A global war begins in 1940 and lasts for decades, destroying cities, inducing plagues and fascist regimes, leaving the few survivors to live in underground cities. The first space travel […]

Over 100 Years ago, the social anxiety we see in our hyper-mediated world of today, was already well on its way during the electric revolution of the late 19th century. Dreams Rewired presents a collection of films from the 1880s to the 1930s, many rare and previously unscreened, that trace contemporary obsessions and anxieties back […]