If you didn’t visit the splendid School of Visual Arts Theater when it was recently hosting screenings for the Gen Art or Tribeca Film Festivals, there are free showings of student films there beginning on Monday. Over 100 student films, both shorts and full-length features (among them a western shot in Manhattan) will be shown at the former Clearview Cheslea West, originally opened in 1963 as the RKO 23rd Street and for a time home to the Roundabout Theater Company. The design elements of the theater’s makeover — including this facade which has not yet been installed — were overseen by the famed Milton Glaser, an SVA alumnus faculty member. The new projection and sound systems in both theaters are as good as it gets in New York City. The free screenings run from noon to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday (except Tuesday evening), with animation being shown on Thursday from 7 to 11 p.m. SVA’s Dusty Awards — which are by invitation only and include Oscar-winning presenters like Kevin Kline, screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (“Doubt”) and cinematographer Robert Elswit (“There Will Be Blood”) — will be held on May 9.