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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 3.16 47 Dean Otto, the Speed's flm curator, says movie-watching is a traditionally passive experience. You sit back, you watch, you hurry over popcorn trails to reach the exit before the parking-lot rush. Not in the Speed's new 142-seat theater, which has the ability to project 16 mm or 35 mm flm. Otto plans on introducing movies, providing program notes, hosting discussions and even working with Wiltshire at the Speed to pair flms with somehow- related foods and wines. He knows more movie games — "B-movie Bingo" (looking for tropes), "The Defenders" (screening your guilty-pleasure movie and defending its honor) — than most of us know flms. As for flms, screened twice daily Friday through Sunday ($9, $7 for members), expect the experimental, the international, the narrative, the documentary. And plenty of kids' movies. Otto wants to build an audience from the playground up. "I really want to do a steady stream of international children's flms," he says. "I'm really passionate about international cinema, being able to experience the bigger world." The Speed's chief curator, Scott Erbes, says the top goal of the expansion was to create more room for two things: contemporary and Kentucky art. "As the state's oldest and largest art museum, we feel we have a responsibility to really represent the state's art history," he says. The 5,600-square- foot Kentucky Gallery, in the remodeled section of the old building that was added in 1983, is home to works from the 18th century to World War II, including an Abraham Lincoln life mask (a bronze copy of one of two moldings of Lincoln's face made fve years apart, showing changes in his face during the Civil War) and a restored poster from the Southern Exposition. The remodel also in- volved building a new central staircase, breaking down walls for more open galleries and polishing terrazzo fooring, originally from 1927.