SEA-Nordic Film Festival: Michael (1924)
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Sept 19, 2026
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Members: $12
General Admission: $14
A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Year: 1924
Runtime: 1h 33m
Language: Silent
Genre: Drama, Romance
Passholders enjoy exclusive access to all festival screenings at the Museum, ensuring you've got a seat for every moment of
movie magic.
Amanda Doxtater is Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.
Her book, Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (2024) explores intersections between popular film melodrama and Scandinavian art-cinema. Writing widely on Nordic Cinema, her work engages with melodrama, gender, queer historiography, childhood and the family in the Nordic welfare state; and issues of class, race and ethnicity. Her publications include: “From Diversity to Precarity: Reading Childhood in Ruben Östlund’s Film Play (2011)”, “Terror Melodrama, Race and the Nation: Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark”, and “History as Embodied Encounter: Queer Pleasures and Temporal Drag in Benjamin Christensen’s Witchcraft Through the Ages”. Together with Maxine Savage, she provided a commentary track on a Kino Lorber Blu-Ray edition of Carl Th. Dreyer’s classic of queer cinema, Michael (1924).
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Members: $12
General Admission: $14
A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Year: 1924
Runtime: 1h 33m
Language: Silent
Genre: Drama, Romance
Passholders enjoy exclusive access to all festival screenings at the Museum, ensuring you've got a seat for every moment of
movie magic.
Amanda Doxtater is Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.
Her book, Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (2024) explores intersections between popular film melodrama and Scandinavian art-cinema. Writing widely on Nordic Cinema, her work engages with melodrama, gender, queer historiography, childhood and the family in the Nordic welfare state; and issues of class, race and ethnicity. Her publications include: “From Diversity to Precarity: Reading Childhood in Ruben Östlund’s Film Play (2011)”, “Terror Melodrama, Race and the Nation: Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark”, and “History as Embodied Encounter: Queer Pleasures and Temporal Drag in Benjamin Christensen’s Witchcraft Through the Ages”. Together with Maxine Savage, she provided a commentary track on a Kino Lorber Blu-Ray edition of Carl Th. Dreyer’s classic of queer cinema, Michael (1924).
