August 29 at 1pm & 4pm

Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion and audience Q&A. Local singer-songwriter Dan Israel will round out the program with a brief solo-acoustic set of Dylan covers.

Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center

The Bob Dylan Center gratefully acknowledges the support of Joe Donnelly and Becky Thorson in making this program possible.

Rare films featuring Dylan on stage and in the studio over fifty years, from solo-acoustic beginnings through the "going electric" revolution, ongoing reinventions with The Band, Joan Baez and Tom Petty, and late-career tributes to Tony Bennett and Johnny Cash.

Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include Dylan’s first film soundtrack for 1961’s “Autopsy on Operation Abolition;” a devastating solo rendition of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” from the 1963 TV special “Folk Songs and More Folk Songs;” a rollicking 1976 take on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” with Joan Baez; a gospel-infused “Blowin’ in the Wind;” an apocalyptically rocking “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” with Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; loving tributes to Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many more treasures.