ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Rebecca Solnit
Thu, Sep 17
|Roxie Theater
Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Margreth Olin's poetic masterpiece Songs of Earth, selected by award-winning author Rebecca Solnit.
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with The Roxie and ZYZZYVA
Rebecca Solnit is a writer whose stunning breadth of spirit and mind has inspired and enlightened generations. As part of the Roxie’s Fiftieth Anniversary, Solnit, who has been coming to the Roxie for its whole life, calls herself such a rare thing as a longtime fan. For Movie Night, Solnit introduces Songs of Earth, a poetic, unspeakably beautiful film by director Margreth Olin, executive produced by Liv Ullman and Wim Wenders.
On the screen, the great scale of majestic fjord rural landscape, which Olin’s father sets to love deeply through all seasons, is interwoven with the minute scale of human history—the tale of impoverished, rugged farmers in the region and the couple’s own marriage.
In Rebecca Solnit’s latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End, the author plays with timescale in similar ways. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope…