Matinee (1993) + Author Visit
- Sat, Aug 1
Director: Joe Dante Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 1993
Starring: Cathy Moriarty, John Goodman, Lisa Jakub, Omri Katz, Simon Fenton
Benita VanWinkle, author of America’s Hometown Movie Theaters: Please Remain Standing, is scheduled to attend for a Q&A and book signing following the screening.
A showman (John Goodman) introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Benita VanWinkle is an award-winning artist who uses the medium of photography and bookbinding to express her creative passions. Concentrating on the documentary genre, she has photographed vintage movie theaters across America in all fifty states for over 40 years with more than 900 theaters in her collection. Her art has been exhibited in over 150 peer-juried exhibitions including 20 one-person exhibits. Her photographic artwork has been published widely in national publications and has garnered radio and television spotlights, and magazine stories. A book of the theater work is in production to be published soon.
Additionally, Benita has presented her theater documentary work internationally in Turkey and Spain. She has written a chapter in Inter- Photography and Architecture: Intersections regarding the ‘Intersection of Art and Documentary’ architectural photography and co-wrote a chapter in the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education on ‘Researching for a Civil Rights History Through Community Photographs.’ Benita has also given presentations regarding her photographic artwork, research, and teaching throughout the southern US.
In 2022, Benita was the recipient of the “Spirit of High Point University” award, a prestigious award given to one faculty member each year who has shown outstanding service within the University and the community. She is a board member of the Historical Society of High Point and has served as a juror for multiple exhibitions of art and photography exhibitions in Georgia and North Carolina.
Currently, Benita is teaching both analog and digital photography, and service-learning courses at High Point University. She has also taught documentary photography classes in Paris, and photographic history, art history, art appreciation, and bookbinding at HPU and at The Creative Circus, an accredited portfolio school in Atlanta. Serving in GA and NC as a youth director in the United Methodist church, Benita has also worked extensively with exceptional children in the public school system.