Wagner’s Das Rheingold is the first opus in Wagner’s operatic tetrology. It is said to embody the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or “complete art,” as it incorporates dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The film screens on Saturday, November 20 at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 21 at 1:30 p.m. Admission is $18 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $20, cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) just met the girl of his dreams. But to date her, he must defeat her seven evil exes—a rogues’ gallery that includes an infamous skateboarder, a vegan rock star, and fearsome identical twins. From the genre-smashing director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, the film screens on Saturday, November 20 at 10 p.m. and Sunday, November 21 at 8 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control. Shmuel, Assi, Herzl, and Yigal are the tank’s crew, four 20-something boys who have never fought in a war and are now operating a killing machine. Though trying to remain brave, the boys are pushed to their mental limits as they struggle to survive in a situation they cannot contain, and try not to lose their humanity in the chaos of war. The film screens on Thursday, November 18 at 8 p.m.; Friday, November 19 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, November 20 at 6 p.m.; and Sunday, November 21 at 6 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit http://www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861. NOTE: A discussion with Israeli film scholar Pablo Utin will follow the film at the Thursday, November 18 screening.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Last Train Home is a powerful film about the experience of Chinese migrant works through the eyes of one amazing girl. Filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like many of China’s rural poor, the couple left behind their children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin—now a teenager—both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, the intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China’s ascendance as an economic superpower. The film screens on Tuesday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 19 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, November 20 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, November 21 at 4 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non UM-students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861. NOTE: A panel discussion with UM experts will follow the film at the Tuesday, November 16 screening.

The Department of Art and Art History in UM’s College of Arts and Sciences will present a solo exhibition by Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta from November 2-28 at Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. An opening reception will be held Saturday, November 13 from 6 to 10 p.m.

The exhibition features Zulueta’s impressive digital performance categorization project of more than 35 images addressing the social practice of consumerism in an era of globalization.

Zulueta’s interdisciplinary exhibition, “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-First Century,” includes a diverse cross section of participants typically marginalized from mainstream advertising that Zulueta directs in order to create a digital record of a pseudo anthropological ethnography study. The concept deals with expanding the tradition of photographic categorization projects of the past by documenting relevant social practice today.

Zulueta has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally at such venues as the International Center for Photography, Smithsonian Institution, and the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cintas Foundation, and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

For more information regarding the artist, visit www.ricardozulueta.com. A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art. Wynwood Project Space is open from 6 to 10 p.m. every second Saturday of the month and by appointment. Admission is free. For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or e-mail [email protected].