A recent posting on the DIA Facebook page asked people what painting they would most like to jump into if they could. Breugel’s The Wedding Dance narrowly bested Bouguereau’s The Nut Gathers as the most popular choice. It is only fitting then that the DFT features a film on its winter schedule that explores what happens when people enter the world of another Bruegel painting, this time The Way to Calvary. The Mill and the Cross (themillandthecross.com), showing the weekends of January 20 and 27, has been called by one critic a “unique, immersive museum-meets-cinema experience.” In an extraordinary imaginative leap, the film explores what occurs when The Way to Calvary comes alive around a visitor, who observes the artist as he sketches the very reality the individual is experiencing. Setting the story of the Crucifixion in sixteenth-century Flanders during the brutal Spanish inquisition, director Lech Majewski uses sophisticated computer technology to creates a brilliantly complex and fascinating multilayered dreamscape that melds art, history, and religion with the joys and struggles of ordinary people.

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