Film Front, a Pilsen-based cine-club, started earlier this month with a simple goal: to bring together amateur film buffs, artists, writers and anyone and everyone who appreciates film and conversation.

Oscar Solis promotes interdisciplinary arts through his latest venture, Film Front.

The name, co-founder Oscar Solis explained, plays on the concept of a storefront, creating an inviting, open space that will show everything from classic films to foreign language movies to little-known documentaries. “It’s almost like we’re offering cultural products for sale, but it’s free,” Solis said.

“[We’re] guiding the appreciation of films and its social function,” he continued. “How does film socially engage with a public audience?”

It’s the public audience that interests Solis more generally, across all of his work. A former neuroscience and psychopharmacology researcher at the University of Chicago, Solis left academia to turn to his true passions: writing and art criticism. Now, through the multidisciplinary art studio New Projects, he’s doing just that. With two designers, two film studies graduates and Solis, a writer, the space explores the “overlap of different intellectual spheres and [supports] open discourse.”

“Culture shouldn’t be something you have to pay for,” Solis reiterated. Through New Projects and Film Front, free culture is generated daily.