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The Hammer Museum is part of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, and offers exhibitions and collections that span classic to contemporary art, as well as programs that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.Through a wide-ranging, international exhibition program and the biennial,Made in L.A., the Hammer highlights contemporary art since the 1960s, especially the work of emerging and under recognized artists. The Hammer offers exhibitions, permanent collections, and nearly 300 public programs annually—including film screenings, lectures, symposia, readings, music performances, and workshops for families.

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Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival! Followed by a Q&A with actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller and others.

Screening followed by a conversation with actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, cinematographer Łukasz Żal, sound designer Johnnie Burn, composer Mica Levi, editor Paul Watts, and producers Ewa Puszczyńska and Jim WilsonIn his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.(2023, USA/Great Britain/Poland. Written and directed by Jonathan Glazer. With Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Freya Kreutzkam. DCP. 105 min. Courtesy A24)TICKETS$20 General Admission $10 Hammer Members with valid discount code. <a href="https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership/" title="https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Become a member today</a>, and get 50% off tickets now.Limit 2 tickets per customer. Your seat(s) will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket(s) at the box office. Box office opens at 6 p.m. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. No late seating; any unclaimed tickets will be released at 6:50 p.m. No refunds and no exchanges. Post-screening guests are subject to change.ABOUT MOMA CONTENDERSThe Hammer Museum proudly presents <a href="https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2023/moma-contenders-2023" title="https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2023/moma-contenders-2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MoMA Contenders</a>, The Museum of Modern Art’s renowned series of influential, innovative films from the past 12 months. Whether bound for awards glory or cult classic status, each of these films is a contender for lasting historical significance.

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