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Today, in partnership with Tinworks Art, the Rialto is entering a new chapter. It’s being shaped as a year-round cultural space—one that supports art exhibitions, artist talks, residencies, performances, and community gatherings. The space is also available for mission-aligned events and rentals, offering a welcoming, flexible setting in the heart of downtown Bozeman. As always, the Rialto remains a place where creativity, conversation, and community come together.
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Chisel & Razor Exhibition Film Series
June 19–October 25, 2026
Tinworks at Rialto
In conjunction with Chisel & Razor, Act I, Tinworks at Rialto presents a film screening series featuring the work of Gisela Torres, Georges Méliès, and Oscar Micheaux. On view in the Rialto Lobby, Torres’s Reverie and Slumber is a 3D mapping film drawn from Torres’s project Looking for Edmonia (Self-Portrait) that chronicles the artist’s interest in connecting with Lewis and investigating her success and eventual fate.
In the Rialto theater a program of scheduled screenings celebrates the films of Oscar Micheaux whose work as a pioneering Black filmmaker brought Black life, agency, and complexity to the screen during the same era that Chisel & Razor illuminates; and the short films of Georges Méliès, the visionary French illusionist, theater director, and filmmaker whose films documented magic tricks and fantastical scenes that were popular during the time of Samuel and Edmonia.
These film screenings are free and open to the public running Thursday through Sundays 12-8pm. Visitors are encouraged to continue the experience at Tinworks, 719 N Ida Ave, where Chisel & Razor, Act I is on view through October 25, 2026.
Artist: Georges Méliès
Films:
Digital video projection, originally 35 mm film, silent, select titles hand-colored
Bio: A visionary French illusionist, theater director, and filmmaker, Georges Méliès’s first films documented popular magic tricks. Rather than trap doors and mirrors, Méliès invented foundational special effects - substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, and hand-painted film tinting - to build his fantastical worlds. This program spans a formative decade of his career including what is considered the world’s first horror film, his obsession with magic, the macabre and the animated figure. https://www.thegeorgesmeliesproject.org/
Artist: Oscar Micheaux
Films:
Digital video projection, originally 35 mm film, black and white, silent
Description:
Bio: The country's first major Black filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux (sometimes written as "Michaux"), directed and produced 44 films over the course of his career. Throughout the first half of the 20th century Micheaux depicted contemporary Black life and complex characters in his films, countering the negative on-screen portrayal of Blacks at the time. https://www.micheaux.org/
Artist: Giesela Torres
Film:
Description: In Reverie and Slumber Torres's voice is an integral storytelling element. She fuses emotion and blurs the movement of time and space by appropriating Peggy Lee’s song Is This All There Is? with her own words to convey oscillating states between the conscious and subconscious. Torres makes a connection with the song’s title and the role of the artist after the pomp and circumstance is no more, querying the transience of artistic achievement via Edmonia's own trajectory of struggle, success and eventual fate.
Bio: Gisela Torres is a London based multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator. Trained as a photographer and filmmaker her practice focuses on presenting the dynamic interplay between traditional and emerging art forms to depict narratives of a personal nature where the familiar, mysterious, and otherworldly co-exist. Through still and moving images, self-portraiture, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and new technologies she hopes to engage the viewer into a contemplative and reflective landscape with atmospheric and playful intention. Her work is anchored in the very process of making, to manifest the transference of the psyche and juxtapose the material with the immaterial. As a freelance arts educator she delivers talks and workshops on exhibitions, visual literacy and photography to young people, adults and outreach communities.
https://www.giselatorres.com/
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