The Tufts University Film and Media Studies Program presents a screening of the 1958 film “The Horse’s Mouth,” followed by a discussion with Professor Laurence Senelick. In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. The film is a perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic creation. Senelick is Fletcher Professor Emeritus of Drama and Oratory and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Free and open to the public.