Join SLAM for The Gleaners and I (2000), presented as part of Cinema St. Louis's 35th-annual St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF). An 1867 painting, The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnès Varda to cross the French countryside to document people who scavenge. Taking everything including surplus in the fields, rubbish in trashcans, … Continued

Join SLAM for Séraphine (2008), presented as part of Cinema St. Louis's 35th-annual St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF). The film follows the story of the rise of primitivist painter and outsider artist Séraphine "de Senlis" Louis (Yolande Moreau), who toils as a maidservant in the homes of the bourgeoisie in Senlis, France, while painting … Continued