Westermann Screenings

Please find a complete list of past Westermann screenings below. For upcoming screenings, check out our Events page. 

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea premiered in the fall of 2023 with a series of three special screenings held in collaboration with esteemed art institutions across the country. The film debuted in New York City as part of the inaugural installment of Art21 at the Movies, and was accompanied a conversation moderated by curator John Corbett, featuring contemporary artists Trenton Doyle Hancock and Aaron Curry, and Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder. The L.A. premiere was a sold-out screening at the Hammer Museum, which featured a legendary post-screening discussion with Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, Leslie Buchbinder, and curator Rani Singh. Our premiere tour culminated with a hometown screening at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the Rubloff Auditorium was transformed into a state-of-the-art 3-D cinema for one night only. Since then, Westermann has screened at numerous cinemas, museums, and universities around the world such as the Music Box Theater, Roxie Theater, Art EXPO, Dartmouth University, RiverRun Film Festival, G.I. Film Festival, and Crosstown Arts, among others, and has garnered multiple awards, including “Best Documentary,” “Best Director,” and “Best Score.” 

*designates 3-D screening

*08/23/25 — Sky Cinema (Santa Fe, NM), post-screening discussion w/ Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, and Happy Price

05/24/25 — Dartmouth University (Hanover, NM), post-screening discussion w/ Westermann composer Tomeka Reid

*04/26/25 — Art EXPO (Chicago, IL), post-screening discussion w/ Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder, Art Institute of Chicago curator Thea Liberty Nichols, and artist & architect Charlie Vinz

04/18/25 — Fredericksburg Film Festival (Fredericksburg, VA)

03/30/25 — Indiana University Cinema / Eskenazi Museum (Bloomington, IN) 

03/16/25 — The Roxie (San Francisco, CA), post-screening discussion w/ Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder

03/08/25 — Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival (Cincinnati, OH) 

02/15-20/25 — Kansas City Art Institute - Artspace (Kansas City, MO)

11/17/24 — St. Louis International Film Festival (St. Louis, MO)

11/11/24 — Centre Film Festival (Centre County, PA)

10/13/24 — Tacoma Film Festival (Tacoma, WA)

10/08/24 — Oregon Indie Film Fest (Eugene, OR)

*09/26/24 — Crosstown Arts / Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), preceded by a panel w/ Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder, producer & editor Brian Ashby, and Westermann scholars David McCarthy and Michael Rooks 

*09/12/24 — Nightlight Cinema (Akron, OH)

09/11/24 — Soo Film Festival (Sault Ste. Marie, MI)

09/06/24 — St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis) 

08/23/24 — Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (Middlebury, VT)

*07/25/24 — National Stereoscopic Association 3-D Con (Wichita, KS), post-screening discussion w/ Westermann co-writer and producer Harrison Sherrod

*07/24/24 — The Music Box Theater (Chicago, IL), post-screening discussion moderated by the Music Box’s Steve Prokopy featuring writer and director, Leslie Buchbinder, editor and producer, Brian Ashby, and co-writer and producer Harrison Sherrod

07/14/24 — L.A. Film Festival - Independent Filmmakers Showcase (Los Angeles, CA)

06/10/24 — Woodward Theater (Cincinnati, OH)

06/03/24 — Hongik University (Seoul, South Korea)

06/02/24 — Upstate Films - Orpheum Theatre (Saugerties, NY)

05/29/24 — Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MI)

05/26/24 — Neon Theater (Dayton, OH) 

05/10/24 — G.I. Film Festival (San Diego, CA), post-screening discussion w/ Steve Dilley, Executive Director of VetArt

04/22-24/24 — RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC) 

04/19/24 — Tomorrow Theater / Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR)

*02/27/24 — Golden State Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)

*01/27/24 — Film Studies Center - University of Chicago/Smart Museum (Chicago, IL), post-screening discussion w/ John Corbett, Smart Museum curator Berit Ness, Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder, and artist Alex Chitty 

*10/19/23 — Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

10/06/23 — Veterans Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)

*10/03/23 — Hammer Museum (Los Angles, CA), post-screening discussion moderated by Rani Singh,  featuring Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, and Leslie Buchbinder

*09/15/23 — Art21 at the Movies (New York City, NY), post-screening discussion moderated by curator John Corbett, featuring contemporary artists Trenton Doyle Hancock and Aaron Curry, as well as Westermann writer & director Leslie Buchbinder