The film ‘A Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center’ by Robert Eisenhardt will screen Thursday as part of the IMA’s ‘Building Worlds: Film + Architecture’ series.

Two of the city’s top visual arts institutions, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Herron Gallery, are currently presenting film series. This gives film lovers a chance to see a couple of great selections of excellent and often hard-to-find titles.

As it happens, both of these series deal with visionary versions of existence. “Building Worlds: Film + Architecture” on Thursday evenings at the IMA deals with the worlds we inhabit. Whereas Herron’s every other Friday evening Sci-Fi Series deals with worlds yet to come. Both of these series are free and open to the public.

“Building Worlds: Film + Architecture”
IMA, DeBoest Lecture Hall 4000 Michigan Road
All films show at 7 p.m.
Sept. 23: A Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center by Robert Eisenhardt
Sept. 30: My Architect by Nathaniel Kahn
Oct. 7: Berlin-Cinema by Samira Gloor-Fadel

Sci-Fi Series
Herron Gallery Herron Auditorium 1701 N. Pennsylvania St.
All films show at 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 1: The Day the Earth Stood Still by Robert Wise
Oct. 15: A Boy and His Dog by L.Q. Jones
Oct. 29: The Thing by John Carpenter
Nov. 5: Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
Nov. 19: Sleeper by Woody Allen
Dec. 3: Alphaville and La Jetee by Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker
Dec. 17: Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky