### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Kane Parsons and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Lukita Maxwell and Finn Bennett. Moderated by Jen Yamato. World Premiere Popcorn and soda courtesy of A24 Co-presented by Beyond Fest

BACKROOMS

Aero Theatre

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Hi friends!

We’re excited to welcome filmmaker and Guggenheim fellow Rajee Samarasinghe back to Shadow Kitchen for a screening of his feature Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (winner of the 2026 “Truer Than Fiction” Independent Spirit Award), alongside the LA premiere of his new short A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth. Rajee will be present for a conversation following the films!

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible
2025, 70 min.

Fusing allegorical magic realism and investigative documentary, and made collaboratively with impacted locals clandestinely in a region still occupied by the military, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible is a lyrical examination of these missing persons through 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka. The nonfiction elements in this film are structured by a fictional narrative thread which tells the surreal tale of a mother who loses her son to a supernatural entity plaguing her community—a nod to the actual disappearances in the region. (Watch the trailer here.)

A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth
2026, 8 min.

Fresh from screenings at Oberhausen and Prismatic Ground, this film emerged from footage originally captured for Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, in particular a testimony that could not be fully conveyed within the framework of the feature. This iteration reshapes the original context, exploring the divide between filmmaker and participant, the intersection of ethnographic and colonial perspectives, and questioning cinema’s ability to bear witness. Through silence, rupture, and absence, the film attends not only to what can be shown, but to what remains unreachable, withheld, or lost.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He received his BFA from UC San Diego and his MFA from CalArts. He recently completed his debut feature film, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, which has received support from the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, & True/False Film Festival’s PRISM program, and had its world premiere at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, Samarasinghe was also awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2023, a Yaddo Residency in 2024, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA - Modern Mondays), the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and the Los Angeles Filmforum (2220 Arts), among others. Samarasinghe’s films have been exhibited at many prestigious venues, including the Tiger Short Competition at IFFR, New Directors/New Films by MoMA & Film at Lincoln Center, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, BFI London, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, Melbourne IFF, Vancouver IFF, Guanajuato IFF, BlackStar, CAAMFest, San Diego Asian FF, L.A. Asian Pacific FF, SFMOMA, Message to Man, Media City, Prismatic Ground etc. He's received the New Cinema Award at the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Best Video Art & Experimental Award at the Tirana Film Festival among others.

Shadow Kitchen presents: Rajee Samarasinghe

Coaxial

Join us for a screening of *Of Color and Ink*, a documentary about the remarkable journey of artist Chang Dai-chien (1899–1983), China’s foremost painter of the 20th century. Director Weimin Zhang documents her 12-year journey to unravel the mysteries and controversies surrounding Chang’s decades of exile in South America, Europe, and the United States. In the 1940s, Chang spent a formative period in Dunhuang, studying and copying the ancient Mogao Cave murals— [the subject of a 2016 Getty Research Institute exhibition][1]—which inspired renewed public interest in the murals and refined Chang’s techniques. *Of Color and Ink* offers an illuminating, revelatory, and entertaining exploration of one of the most influential giants of 20th-century art.

The film will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Weimin Zhang, writer Carl Nagin, director of the Chang Dai-chien Research Center Yudan Zhang, and USC professor Meiling Cheng.

After the screening, join us for a reception sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.

DIRECTED, PRODUCED and EDITED BY: Weimin Zhang. 102 minutes, 2024. Chinese with English subtitles.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][2] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.

誠邀您參加紀錄片《萬里千尋》（Of Color and Ink）的放映及研討會。本片講述了從東方走向西方的藝術家張大千（1899–1983）的非凡人生歷程。作為20世紀中國最重要的畫家之一，張大千曾被譽為「五百年來第一人」 以及「東方的畢加索」。

導演張偉民歷時十二年，影片深入挖掘大量珍貴的歷史活動影像與文獻資料，真實呈現張大千鮮為人知的海外藝術生涯， 極具文獻價值。20世紀40年代，張大千曾在敦煌度過一段重要時期，潛心研究並臨摹莫高窟壁畫——這一主題亦成為2016年蓋蒂研究所展覽的焦點——不僅重新激發了世人對敦煌壁畫的關注，也進一步錘鍊並昇華了他的藝術技法。

透過創新的影像語言與視覺風格，《萬里千尋》通過對歷史影像的深入挖掘與分析，以及大量實地調研與紀錄拍攝，生動刻畫了一位東方藝術家對中國傳統文化理念的堅守與傳播，使當代觀眾得以感受這位具有全球影響力的藝術家的心路歷程。

放映結束後，將舉行映後對談。出席嘉賓包括導演兼製片人張偉民、作家 Carl Nagin、四川博物院張大千研究中心主任張玉丹，以及主持人——南加州大學戲劇批評研究教授鄭美玲。

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/cave_temples_dunhuang/index.html
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Of Color and Ink*

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Epic yet intimate, sweeping yet personal, THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of television as well as legendary director Maurice Pialat’s magnum opus. Commissioned for French TV in 1971, Pialat and screenwriter René Wheeler crafted a seven-episode, nearly 400-minute miniseries about the impact of World War I on a simple French family living in the countryside. Applying a naturalistic focus to their subject, Pialat and Wheeler capture both the historical scope of the conflict and the subtle ways that a small town’s quotidian routines and rituals—church, school, tavern—are indelibly touched by it. At the center of the richly detailed narrative are the Picards, headed by Albert (Pierre Doris), a game warden for the wooded estate of a local marquis (Fernand Gravey). He and his gentle wife, Jeanne (a heartbreaking Jacqueline Dufranne), raise two teenagers—Marcel (Henri Puff), at risk of being drafted; and Marguerite (Agathe Natanson), contemplating marriage—but also shelter three abandoned boys for the duration. Most rambunctious and soulful among them is Hervé (Hervé Lévy), whose journey from boyhood to adolescence, all while becoming a surrogate child to the Picards and hoping for a reunion with his soldier father (Paul Crauchet), lends a beating heart to THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS—a panoramic tale that explores the longing, loyalty and resilience that sustain humanity amid times of earth-shattering loss.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 1 & 2

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters,” Dir. Diane Keaton, 46 Mins**

Earle sends a “message” to Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Albert reveals that it was Josie who shot Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Slaves and Masters” and “The Condemned Woman” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 & 16

Los Feliz Theatre

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?

New Beverly Cinema

Join us to celebrate the opening of a new art exhibition featuring the experimental and esoteric work of Harry Smith!

Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith - Exhibition Opening Reception

Philosophical Research Society

Every 1st Thursday of the month we’ll be hosting a music open mic night for kids and teens.


Our intention is to create a supportive and joyful space where young people can come together, share their love of music, practice performing regularly, make mistakes, try again & grow!

All performers must be under 18 & guardians must be present.

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

North Star Sessions is a free showcase that strives to be a safe and inclusive place for artists and music lovers in the LA music scene. We will highlight the work of 3 musicians, and have an open mic draw between sets.

8pm

North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: François Ozon from the novel by Albert Camus

**Producer**: François Ozon

Nihilism has never looked so good as in François Ozon&#8217;s stunning and sensual adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217;s existential classic. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. This reputation for otherworldly detachment follows Meursault back toAlgiers, where his tentative romance with Marie (Rebecca Marder) and his indifference to professional advancement frustrate those around him. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head when he murders an Arab man on the beach. A Frenchman may offer many defenses for shooting an Arab in Algeria, but Meursault’s refusal of excuse or remorse shakes colonial society to its core. Photographed in sterling, sensuous black-and-white, François Ozon’s new take on Albert Camus’s classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation, simultaneously faithful to the text and dedicated to discovering fresh perspectives in the margins.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

The Stranger

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producers**: David Cronenberg, András Hámori, Robert Lantos

One of David Cronenberg’s most prophetic and thrilling achievements!   Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Defoe, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm and Christopher Eccleston all collide in this epic take on the gaming era – one as important to Y2K as *Videodrome* is to the ‘80s.   The film’s many layers of sci-fi excellence feel ripped from the pages of Phillip K. Dick and William Burroughs.

In the terrifying near-future, game designer Allegra Geller (Leigh) and her mousy publicist (Law) disappear down the VR rabbit hole to fend off deadly assassins and repair her controversial game “eXistenZ” from the inside.  Cronenberg brilliantly gives this world the feel of video game cutscenes with a psychosexual edge: electronic umbilical cords, *Total Recall-*style reality shattering and other kinks.

*New 4K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Cronenberg is one of the all-time masters of horror, take home more morbid masterpieces tonight!

*Dead Ringers, Crash, Videodrome*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

eXistenZ

Vidiots

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

White Lightning

Vista Theatre

Red Beard (Akahige) in 35mm

Once Upon a Time in China with Jet Li

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Paul Newman reprised his role as pool shark “Fast Eddie” Felson for this Martin Scorsese-directed sequel to THE HUSTLER, with Felson now mentoring a younger man (Tom Cruise). Newman won his first Best Actor Oscar just one year after receiving an Honorary Award from the Academy “in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft.” The film was also nominated for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio’s livewire supporting performance, art direction by Boris Leven and Karen A. O’Hara, and Richard Price’s screenplay, loosely adapted from the sequel novel by *The Hustler* author Walter Tevis.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE COLOR OF MONEY

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

Heat

Brain Dead Studios

Commune with the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, in a living work of art created by Robert Irwin.  Experience the wonder of the spring garden through the eyes of an artist in this 45-minute tour led by Getty Horticulturist Matthew Southall. 

National Public Gardens Day

Screen Time! is a video art screening featuring multimedia artists from across the globe.

Doors at 7pm, screening at 8pm :D

Featuring...

Diane Lac @diane_lac
Erica Sheu @sheu.lu
Jean Hsi @jeanhsi
Jessie Edelstein @jessie01000101
Maya Man @mayaontheinternet
Mia Murray @scaryspice737
Molly Soda @molly__soda
Nova Odette @novaodette
Samar Al Summary @backstoryache
Siobhan McCarthy @shivvmccarthy
Wednesday Kim @wednesdaykimm
Dan Ortiz Leizman @apocalypsephenomenology

Screen Time! (5/8)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Polish with English subtitles.*

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli XCX) and her soon-to-be fiancé, Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Bethany takes the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, reunite with childhood friend Nel (Lena Góra) and traipse across lofts, clubs and back alleys, all the while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.

From American maverick Pete Ohs, who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and produced this dizzyingly charming European postcard, comes ERUPCJA, a delightful anti-romantic comedy about the pains and pleasures of being in love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: USA/Poland

ERUPCJA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*“THE JOURNEY was born directly out of a collapsed project in 1982, when I tried to organize another antinuclear war film, to be funded by Central TV in England, and working with a number of peace groups across the UK. I felt that THE WAR GAME was out-of-date, and I was concerned about the escalating nuclear arms race, that was allied to the US foreign policy of a nuclear war that would be limited to Europe. My idea was to create a series of scenes, again depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain, on a larger scale than THE WAR GAME, that would allow citizens across Britain to express their concerns via their involvement in the production of this project. However, Central TV withdrew its funding, on the grounds that the budget was becoming too large, and the project collapsed. After rethinking the scale of the project into a more global film dealing with the general silence on the burgeoning nuclear arms race, I appealed for funding to a number of international TV channels. Without exception, every TV channel that I contacted refused, even though I was only requesting support for filming an ultra low-cost segment in each country, where I would ask local people what they knew and felt about the world arms race. *

*“During the time while I had no funding from the professional sector, I happened to be showing THE WAR GAME to the world’s oldest peace movement association, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (SPAS), in Stockholm. In May 1983, during its 100th anniversary congress, SPAS unanimously decided to support fund-raising for a new film about the nuclear threat. Based in Stockholm, and with initial funding from SPAS, I immediately began to involve the network of friends and acquaintances that I had acquired over many years of travelling and lecturing, to build an international fund-raising drive for the new film, and to start research in those parts of the world where I would organize local productions groups for the actual filming.*

*“The film’s core concept started to emerge: I would visit families or groups of people in various countries, and interview them to find out what they knew about the state and consequences of the world arms race, and the effects of nuclear weapons. The interviews would also focus on the role that mass media and educational systems played in shaping a world view, and on the knowledge that these people had – or did not have – vis-à-vis these subjects.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: New Zealand/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/Sweden/UK/Germany

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE JOURNEY Parts 9-12

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 3, 4 & 5

Django Unchained

Michele O&#8217;Marah and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer join Now Instant for a special presentation of O&#8217;Marah&#8217;s 2012 *Blow Me!*, followed by a conversation between the two.

Blow Me!

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriter**: Joel Alfonso Vargas

**Producer**: Paolo Maria Pedullà

In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg &#8220;nutcracker&#8221; cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with discovery talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn.

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

Drunken Master

Police Story

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Cosmic Rage: A Fundraiser for the LA Tenants Union (LATU) & Community Self-Defense Coalition Los Angeles (CSDCLA)*.

In person: Jazmin Jazzy Romero, gh0sttaste

Full info: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/spring-2026/cosmic-rage/

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**COSMIC RAGE** is a program that presents formally subversive explorations of migration, empire, ritual and revolt. Curated in response to recent attacks against immigrant communities, the program asks us to honor the grief and rage within as a creative force that propels oppressed people towards action. These documentary, narrative and experimental works represent various perspectives by Latin-American, Black and immigrant filmmakers, all bursting with visions of rebellion and transformation. Food vendors will be present as well. Curated by Helen Peña.

The films will be followed by a live performance with Jazmin Romero and a DJ set by gh0sttaste.

All proceeds will go towards supporting immigrant tenants and organizing efforts at LA Tenants Union (LATU) & Community Self-Defense Coalition Los Angeles (CSDCLA).

LA Tenants Union (LATU) is an autonomous tenant union organizing tenants fighting gentrification and displacement across LA neighborhoods, and is currently running a mutual aid fund for struggling immigrant members in crisis. https://latenantsunion.org/

Community Self-Defense Coalition Los Angeles (CSDCLA) has been a pillar across LA in organizing defense to support immigrant communities across LA county, and are raising money to support separated families with access to food, medical supplies, legal assistance, housing security and a means to contact their loved ones. @communityselfdefensecoalition

Jazmin Jazzy Romero is an artist and musician from Los Angeles, California. Playing with a mix of sound, movement, and material, she develops performance-based worlds where musical thinking becomes a method for story-telling. She engages with musical gesture and physical form to produce scores and compositions that materialize as performances, video, and sculptural assemblages. Her artworks are activated through liveness and collaboration, viewer interpretation, repetition, and variation where meaning is generated through encounter and exchange. She draws from both her formal musical training and embodied, intuitive processes, using composition as a way to translate personal and collective histories into spatial and sonic experiences. She is also a member of various performance and music production collectives, such as COQUETA. https://www.jazminromero.com/

Cosmic Rage: A Fundraiser for the LATU + CSDCLA

2220 Arts + Archives

Secrets & Lies

Black Sunday in 35mm

Pool of London

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A couple at the table by the window look happier than anybody else in the restaurant. Hiroshi Eda, who works at a governmental office, has got a promotion and his wife, Yumiko, has been pregnant. Their happiness seems to last forever, but actually it ends that afternoon with a traffic accident that kills the husband. Shiro Mishima, the young man who has caused the accident, is a promising salaried-man of the Pacific Trading Company. He happens to meet Yumiko in the restaurant where she has last seen her husband alive. Shiro promises to give her fifteen thousand yen every month for compensation.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Transcendental Appointments’ and ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SCATTERED CLOUDS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing adaptation of Stephen King’s blockbuster horror novel. When writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson)–who has a history of alcoholism and child abuse–takes a job as winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, he, his wife (Duvall) and their psychic young son will be isolated until spring. But once the first blizzard closes the road out, the accumulated power of evil deeds committed at the hotel begins to drive Jack mad. Now there may be no escape for his wife and son in this haunting madness, memory and family violence.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/UK

THE SHINING

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

*“Between 2016-17, composer Michael Nyman and I collaborated on a massive multi-screen installation for The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The idea was to produce a mash-up of the raw unedited Mexican footage with Michael’s music. The experimental digital restoration of the combined sounds and images would extend alongside José Clemente Orozco’s *The Epic of American Civilization* (1932-34), a large, multi-panel horizontal mural at Dartmouth College, and also inhabit a rather small area by Hermitage standards, the Jordan “Kerensky” Staircase Eisenstein had filmed for October (1928). The weight of the enterprise was its undoing. The one “object” realized was the 2-screen IDOLS BEHIND ALTARS composed of footage used by Jay Leyda for his marvelous EISENSTEIN’S MEXICAN FILM, EPISODES FOR STUDY (1955-57). The music and films evoked a new language of non-editing, that is each spoke back and forth to one another revitalizing the enchantments captured by Eisenstein. The overall effect conveys the vivid curiosity and sense of wonder witnessed by the filmmakers as they sculpted moving images into a portrait of Mexico between 1930 and 1932. The new music composed and performed in 2026 by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky is just that, a joyous new reunion invigorating the authentic sights and sounds witnessed by Eisenstein.” — Bruce Posner*

*“If 500 years from now the name ‘Bruce Posner’ is forgotten, future historians you will name you the Master of Moving Diptychs. Eisenstein spoke of ‘vertical montage.’ When he sees your brand-new Idols Behind Altars, he will theorize ‘lateral montage.’ The panel pairs talk to each other with precision — now conjuring phantom eyeline matches, now forming geometrical shapes. The whole is very convincing, and I am sure Eisen+Tissé would not be against experimenting with parallel paneling, reminds me of Eisen’s ‘dynamic square’ theory.” — Yuri Tsivian*

*“It’s all about perspective. What is film but a collision of angles? What is a film soundtrack but an invisible mirror to the cinematic imaginary? When I approached Eisenstein’s fractured Mexican masterpiece, I found myself drawn back to my conviction that cinema is not merely a medium of observation, but a revolutionary engine of thought. In the digital age, our relationship to the image is more ‘dialectical’ than ever. It’s all a mix. We live in a world of constant juxtaposition, a perpetual ‘overtonal montage’ of data and desire. My score is a reflection of that friction. The rest, as we say in DJ culture, is ‘a remix.'” — Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky*

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

Advance Screening of New Restorations Films courtesy of British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Det Danske Filminstitut, Filmmakers Showcase, Gosfilmofond of Russia, Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington and Turner Classic Movies Photo courtesy of Kino Classics, Gosfilmofond and Filmmakers Showcase Restorations by Bruce Posner ‘Sergei Eisenstein Restorations’

¡SERGEI EISENSTEIN MÉXICO! IDOLS BEHIND ALTARS

Picasso forger, fake author and magic tricks in a wild ride of a &#8220;factual&#8221; tale from Orson Welles. I&#8217;ll take the steak au poivre too!

F for Fake

The U.N.G.C.C. (United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center) recovers the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah and construct Mechagodzilla as a countermeasure against Godzilla. Meanwhile, a giant egg is discovered along with a new monster called Rodan. The egg is soon found to be none other than an infant Godzillasaurus.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

LPS is a local poetry society dedicated to keeping poetry vibrant and accessible. Each 75-minute event features up to 21 randomly drawn readers sharing one poem each, creating a lively, democratic celebration of language and community. Join us & share a poem!

One poem per person (yours or one of your favorites!).

In-person signups open 1/2 hour prior to the event (limited to 21).

No sign-ups after the event begins.

Spirits of a future world unite!

LPS @ HML Poetry Open Mic (5/17)

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.

As we count down to the upcoming World Cup, this outdoor screening invites audiences to revisit iconic moments from soccer history. Bring friends, family, and a picnic and experience the beautiful game on the big screen in a communal, joyful setting. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition [*Fútbol Is Life*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/futbol-life-animated-sportraits-lyndon-j-barrois-sr), this series highlights how transcendent moments on the pitch become lasting cultural memories that connect people across generations and borders.  

**Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" Match (1986 World Cup)**
Match: Argentina vs. England (Quarter-final)
Date: June 22, 1986

“A little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God.”

Diego Maradona’s enigmatic explanation about his infamous opener in Argentina’s 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico™ quarter-final clash with England holds a place in football history alongside the goal itself and his mesmeric second, which followed just four minutes later. The meeting at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 22, 1986, will forever be remembered for Maradona’s moment of gamesmanship and then the flash of pure genius which provided a snapshot into the career and life of one of the greatest players of all time in under 300 seconds.

Fútbol on Film: Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" Match

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In a small New Hampshire town during the 1930s and ’40s, an African-American doctor and his family pass for white. Although successful and accepted in their community, they live a lie…in constant fear of being discovered in this riveting drama about racism in the United States before the Civil Rights Movement.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

LOST BOUNDARIES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching À NOS AMOURS is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself), ineffectual mother and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence, À NOS AMOURS is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

À NOS AMOURS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Silverlake Scream Show is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to championing bold new voices in horror and cultivating a passionate, engaged fan community. First Bite is a screening series focused on debut horror features, pairing each film with a candid Q&A about what it actually takes to get a first feature made. The series is designed to demystify the process, creating a filmmaker-first conversation around everything from financing and production to festivals and distribution.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Traveling to Detroit for a job interview, a young woman books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to spend the evening, but soon discovers that there’s a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Silverlake Scream Show Presents BARBARIAN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A producer monkey pitches a fairytale extravaganza to a skeptical financier. A psychedelic meta-comedy that mixes animation with excerpts from a Soviet science-fiction fantasy spectacle. A group of monkeys, including a director loosely inspired by Dennis Hopper’s EASY RIDER persona, struggle through various trials and tribulations while making an epic adventure film in this psychedelic and satirical look at the Hollywood counterculture of the early ’70s. An unlikely hybrid of analogue animation and live action Soviet fantasy film, TIKI TIKI repurposes extended passages from Rolan Bykov’s eye-popping 1967 phantasmagoria AYBOLIT-66 as the film within the film, adding irreverent comic dubbing and cutting to subvert the original intent. An unapologetically eccentric experience that has earned comparisons to H.C. Potter’s HELLZAPOPPIN’, TIKI TIKI remains one of the most sought-after animated enigmas of its era. New 4K restoration from the original a/b negatives by Canadian International Pictures with funding from Telefilm Canada.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Canadian International Pictures

COUNTRY: Canada

TIKI TIKI

Frankenstein

Man on Fire

Acclaimed documentarian Raoul Peck's vital & unnervingly prescient documentary about the "1984" author & his lessons for our troubled times

Raoul Peck's ORWELL: 2+2=5 (2025)

**Screenwriter**: Thomas Schumacher

**Producers**: Jim Cox,  Karey Kirkpatrick,  Joe Ranft

The cutest secret agent mice are back to save yet another kiddo in distress in this massively fun and adorable Disney adventure all about saving endangered wildlife with all-star voice talent from Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy and even George C. Scott. A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry &#8212; the Rescue Aid Society&#8217;s top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the day. Accompanying the fearless duo are bumbling albatross Wilbur and local field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat. Throw another shrimp on the barbie and head with us on an animated Australian adventure!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more adorable animated mice!

*The Secret of NIMH, Ratatouille, Ralph S. Mouse*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Rescuers Down Under

Filmmaker **Athina Rachel Tsangari** in conversation with filmmaker/animator **Flóra Anna Buda **(*27*, Short Film Palme d&#8217;Or)!

Part of *Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,* a retrospective of the Greek director&#8217;s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.**

Featuring:

***FIT ***(Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 1994, 8 min)

Lizzie discovers her inability to (and obsession with) fitting things inside of other things.

***Reflections*** (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2009, 8 min)

Mapping projections of analogue and digital animations at Acropolis Museum Opening Ceremony, 2009.

***The Capsule*** (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2012, 35 min)

Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood &#8211; infinitely.

***24 Frames Per Century*** (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2013, 2 min)

A pair of film projectors discuss their impending obsolescence.

**Plus! A Bonus Secret Film** (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, ???)

Short Films by Athina Rachel Tsangari

**Screenwriter**: Becky Johnston

**Producers**: Robert Cavallo,  Joseph Ruffalo,  Steven Fargnoli

Icon of icons &#8211; the one and only Prince &#8211; directed and starred in this black and white cult classic musical gigolo fantasy. After the resounding success of *Purple Rain*, Prince cashed in his passion project chips on this fun and frivolous romp through the French Riviera. Prince and Jerome Benton play scammers and gigolos, out to con rich women out of their diamonds and pearls, but when he runs into a stunning heiress played by Kristin Scott Thomas, he&#8217;s got to choose between love and money. While not structured like the standard musical with diegetic musical numbers, you&#8217;ll be vibing to a fully Prince soundtrack as you watch the icon seduce, swindle, and goof around like a silent slapstick comedian. You won&#8217;t want to miss your chance to see it on the big screen and especially *hear* it through our killer speaker system!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Prince bangers from our video rental collection!

*Purple Rain, Graffiti Bridge, Prince: The Hits Collection*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Under the Cherry Moon

**Screenwriters**: Athina Rachel Tsangari,  Joslyn Barnes

**Producers**: Joslyn Barnes,  Viola Fügen,  Rebecca O&#8217;Brien,  Athina Rachel Tsangari, Michael Weber

With Writer/Director/Producer **Athina Rachel Tsangari** in conversation with filmmaker **Josephine Decker** after the screening!

Part of *Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,* a retrospective of the Greek director’s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who deconstructed human behavior within bounded communities in *Attenberg* and *Chevalier*, sets her sights on entirely new environs in *Harvest*, which takes place in a remote village in medieval England. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, Tsangari’s film stars Caleb Landry Jones as Walter Thirsk, the former childhood friend and manservant of the village’s weak-willed landowner, Master Kent (Harry Melling). Marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders, the town’s denizens fall under new threat after Kent’s iron-fisted city cousin comes into possession of the land, with new plans for agricultural profit. Shot in the sun-dappled Scottish countryside with natural light by cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Tsangari’s most ambitious work to date is both carnal and cerebral, a multifaceted reflection on man’s relationship to the land, rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance. (NYFF)

*&#8220;An audacious, savage carnival of a film.&#8221;* —Jonathan Romney, *The Financial Times*

*&#8220;[A] vigorous, yeasty period piece&#8230; transfixes as a whole-sackcloth immersion into another time and place.&#8221;* —Guy Lodge, *Variety*

*&#8220;Dreamy, hazy and phantasmic, vacillating between extreme beauty and something approaching folk horror.&#8221;* —Alissa Wilkinson, *The New York Times*

*&#8220;Stands strong and tall, a work solid as an oak. Full of a sensual love of nature and a distinctive vibe, it’s tangy like a home-brewed ale.&#8221;* —Leslie Felperin,* The Hollywood Reporter*

*&#8220;Fundamentally a work of political cinema, a social archeology of the emergence of capitalism—of the depravities of modern economics and the inherent injustices of its legal premises.&#8221;* —Richard Brody, *The New Yorker*

Harvest

Having a Wild Weekend

Barton Fink in 35mm

The Passionate Friends

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A widow who works at a local aquarium finds joy again when she forms an unlikely bond with a Giant Pacific Octopus and a wayward young man who comes to town in search of family. Together, they will uncover a mystery that will lead them to a life-changing discovery and restore their sense of wonder. Based on the best-selling book.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Olivia Newman and editor Tamara Meem Popcorn and soda courtesy of Netflix

REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker (David McKnight) is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist’s supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of Isaac (Glynn Turman), a mild-mannered law student. After inhabiting Isaac, Walker decides to hunt down the Rev. Elijah Bliss (Louis Gossett Jr.), a former criminal who helped the authorities find and assassinate the mobster years ago.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

50th Anniversary Co-presented by 36 Cinema ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents J.D.'S REVENGE

I Love Maria / Aces Go Places IV

**Producers**: David Zeiger,  Evangeline Griego,  Aaron Zarrow

Vidiots is overwhelmed to welcome actor, activist, and eternal icon **Jane Fonda** for a special 20th Anniversary screening of the documentary *Sir! No Sir!* followed by a conversation with Fonda, director **David Zeiger**, and **Viet Thanh Nguyen** (*The Sympathizer*).

Easily the most timely and resonant film about the soldiers on the front lines of antiwar resistance, the award-winning breakout theatrical hit *Sir! No Sir!*  Tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who helped force the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War. Contrary to the popular image of long-haired hippies spitting on returning soldiers, *Sir! No Sir!* vividly demonstrates that GIs were the heart and soul of the anti-war movement. Poignantly narrated by a diverse cast of veteran GI resisters who recall the ferocious days of peace marches and stiff jail sentences, SIR! NO SIR! pulls no punches in its raw depiction of the power of people, especially those in uniform. Directed by David Zeiger, *Sir! No Sir!* is *&#8220;powerful stuff, offering us not only a new look at the past, but to the unavoidably relevant insights into the present&#8221;* (New York Daily News).

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home tons of Jane Fonda deep cuts from our video rental collection, including:

*They Shoot Horses, Don&#8217;t They? In the Cool of the Day, Joy House*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Sir! No Sir!

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 19, “Variations on Relations,” Dir. Jonathan Sanger, 47 Mins**

Pete and Catherine open the first puzzle box.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 20, “The Path to the Black Lodge,” Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal, 46 Mins**

Cooper convinces Annie to enter the Miss Twin Peaks contest.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Variations on Relations” and “The Path to the Black Lodge” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 19 and 20

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Le Déménagement,” 1992, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 39 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Surrounded by unpacked boxes, a man delivers an extended monologue on indecision and regret.

FORMAT: DCP

**L’HOMME À LA VALISE, 1984, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 61 Mins, INA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A woman returns to her apartment after a two-month absence. She finds a distant acquaintance settled in as if he owned the place and seemingly unwilling to leave. Disheartened, she retreats to a bedroom. A game of cat and mouse ensues between the invader and the captive.

FORMAT: DCP

Photo courtesy of Collections CINEMATEK © Chantal Akerman Foundation ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

“Le Déménagement” / L'HOMME À LA VALISE

Tobruk / Rough Night in Jericho

**Producers**: Danielle Varga,  Sasha Wortzel

Artist and Filmmaker **Sasha Wortzel** joins us in the microcinema for a screening of her dreamy and poetic documentary *River of Grass*.

*River of Grass* is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, “*The Everglades: River of Grass*,” (1947), which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today.

Interweaving Douglas&#8217;s writing, present-day verité, and archival glimpses, *River of Grass* reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together.

“*Wortzel’s film is a clarion call to protect Florida’s greatest resource.*” &#8211; RogerEbert.com

&#8220;*A variety of perspectives add up to something as exquisitely crystalline, allowing you to get lost in its beauty without losing sight of how easily broken it can be*.&#8221; -The Moveable Feast

&#8220;*A rare environmental film to succeed both in expressing collective grief about climate change and inspiring activism to adapt and resist further depredations.*&#8220;- Filmmaker Magazine

Sasha Wortzel is a celebrated artist, with work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places.

River of Grass

The Scarlet Empress

Mezzanine presents PHANTOM BEIRUT (أشباح بيروت), a film by Ghassan Salhab. 1998, France/Lebanon, 117m, DCP.

U.S. premiere of a brand-new 2K restoration

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"An intelligent thriller of deception, loyalty and betrayal.” -The New York Times

“\[Salhab\] weaves the familiar Lebanese themes of exile, destruction, memory, hope and illusions into a poem to a beloved city and its people, as scarred as its buildings." -Variety

Among the most beautiful cinematic evocations of the Lebanese Civil War, director Ghassan Salhab’s remarkable feature debut captures the everyday rhythms of Beirut in the late ‘80s, where citizens live a potent mixture of nostalgia and fear amid a seemingly endless conflict. After faking his own death during battle, Khalil (Aouni Kawas) returns to Beirut under a new identity, forced to confront the old friends and comrades he left behind a decade earlier. Interspersed with onscreen interviews with cast members, Salhab’s offbeat thriller is a time capsule of a city and a people continuing to live with the ghosts of their past.

In Arabic with English subtitles. A Several Futures release. Special thanks to Graham Carter.

Mezzanine: Ghassan Salhab's Phantom Beirut

Being There in 35mm

A night in the life of two best friends. Is this the greatest, truest depiction of the teenage feeling? Shoulda been handing out the Oscars here, that&#8217;s for damn sure.

Superbad

Movie theater chain established in 1938 showcasing the latest independent, foreign & art films.

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show:THE STRANGER Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but, though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.

THE STRANGER

Fine Arts Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Before he stunned the cinematic world with the epic DEKALOG series and the Three Colors trilogy, the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski made his first work of metaphysical genius, BLIND CHANCE, a compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek (the magnetic Bogusław Linda), a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; Kieślowski dramatizes Witek’s journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice does. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government, BLIND CHANCE is here presented in its complete original form.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Poland

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

BLIND CHANCE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Monique (Monique Melinand) is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband, Roger (Hubert Deschamps), carries on with life, groping the female customers. Her son, Philippe (Philippe Léotard), remains aloof and impatient. Her daughter-in-law, Nathalie (Nathalie Baye), wonders if she is witnessing her own future decline. The four individuals struggle to express, or even feel, their love for one another, as they await the inevitable. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media Group

COUNTRY: France

THE MOUTH AGAPE

A portrait of Pritzker award winning architect BV Doshi—a meditative exploration of his deeply philosophical design mission

THE PROMISE: ARCHITECT BV DOSHI (2023) — Philosophy of Design screening

**Screenwriter**: Ed Solomon

**Producers**: Iain Canning,  Jim Parks

Join us in the microcinema for Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s latest triumph, a brilliant artistic character study with phenomenal performances from Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

The Christophers

Blonde Dynamite/No Holds Barred

The Hidden Room (aka Obsession)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 87 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

An expanded version of episode VI in Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman in an adjacent housing project.

FORMAT: DCP

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 85 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

A shocking, powerful film expanded from episode V of Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.

FORMAT: DCP

A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE / A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

Gardena Cinema is the oldest and only vintage single-screen stand-alone movie cinema in Southwest Los Angeles.

Monthly short film festival. Watch and vote. Audience award to the best short film each month. Annual championship in DECEMBER.

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 5/21) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for after-hours walk-throughs of *Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials* and *SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection* led by curators **Pablo José Ramírez** and **Erin Christovale**, respectively, accompanied by drinks and appetizers on the Annenberg terrace. 

Swing by **LULU **or the **Hammer Store** before the tours for 10% off your purchases. 

This event is exclusive to Hammer members at the Immerse level ($250) and higher. 

[Become a member today](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership). 

If you would like to upgrade your membership, contact us at [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu) or 310-443-7050.
 
RSVP required; capacity is limited. Kindly reply by Friday, May 15 to 310-443-7050 or [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

Cocktails with a Curator

Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor **Elizabeth DeLoughrey**, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor **Rebeca Méndez**, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist **Rosanna Xia**

Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

From the *Los Angeles Times* and Pulitzer Prize-finalist **Rosanna Xia**, *Out of Plain Sight* is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. 

Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovers a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean—and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.

2024, Dir. Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia, DCP, color, 94 min.

Out of Plain Sight

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Donissan, a mediocre seminarist, haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission, mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners…until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette, who has just committed a mortal sin. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media Group

COUNTRY: France

UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN

The Hallelujah Trail

Artistic polymath Adam Green presents an exploration of Harry Smith's esoteric artistic practices + a screening of Smith's landmark film!

Adam Green Explains Harry Smith + HEAVEN & EARTH MAGIC (1962)

Bring a project you've been working on or try one of ours!

Presented by Art Hang.

6-8pm

FREE! Some materials provided. First come, first serve.




Art Night at Scribble!

Christine/Maximum Overdrive

Dersu Uzala in 35mm

Join us for a celebratory Los Angeles screening of *Joshua Bailey’s*

**Stolen Kingdom.**

**Synopsis:**

*Stolen Kingdom* is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief,

scandal and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an

animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film features key

figures from the park&#8217;s underground community, each sharing their unique

stories.
As the narrative unfolds, early pranks and antics are shown to have inspired

more recent crimes, culminating in a true crime mystery. What begins as a tale

of friendship and passion ends with one lingering question:

**Who stole Buzzy?**

Stolen Kingdom

Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian&#8217;s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

Escape to Witch Mountain

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Canada/Hungary

BLUE HERON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Three super-stars lead a great cast: head-of-the-geisha-house Isuzu Yamada looks on the bright side, while daughter Hideko Takamine works that sewing machine. But quietly observing maid Kinuyo Tanaka is the only one who actually realizes the inevitable end of their world in a harsh post-war Tokyo.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

FLOWING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silver Lake’s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—as he navigates his way into the next chapter.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Circle Collective

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Greg Vrotsos

SITUATIONS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and English with English subtitles.*

Swapping homes means swapping lives. In this Lubitschian romantic comedy of mistaken identities, misunderstandings, inverted roles, and motherly love, the free-spirited, straight-talking Béatrice (Juliette Binoche) trades her messy Parisian apartment with Henry (William Hurt), a buttoned-up New York shrink with a pristinely curated Fifth Avenue penthouse, a golden retriever, and a fiancée. Henry discovers on his return to New York that Béatrice is conducting therapy sessions with his neurotic patients. Intrigued, he pretends to be one of them and soon finds himself on the proverbial couch. As the transference and countertransference inevitably take hold, so too does their love. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Le Bureau Films

COUNTRY: France/Germany/Belgium

30th Anniversary ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

A COUCH IN NEW YORK

**Screenwriter**: Ildikó Enyedi

**Producers**: Reinhard Brundig,  Mónika Mécs,  Nicolas Elghozi,  Meng Xie

At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.

From Ildikó Enyedi, the director of Academy Award-nominated *On Body and Soul, *comes* Silent Friend*, an epic, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Venice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler, Enyedi crafts a thoughtful meditation on the essential question of what it means to be human.

Silent Friend

**Screenwriter**: Scott Rosenberg

**Producer**: Jerry Bruckheimer

Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with this high-flying banger with one of the best casts in an action blockbuster including a triumvirate of bad-asses Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, AND Danny Trejo. Nicolas Cage stars as  former US Army ranger Cameron Poe, newly paroled and sporting some glorious long hair, who is hitching a ride on home aboard the &#8220;Jailbird,&#8221; a prison transport flight taking the “worst of the worst” to a new super-prison. When the plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by genius serial killer Cyrus &#8220;The Virus&#8221; Grissom (John Malkovich at his most Malkovich), Poe must find a way to stay undercover, stay alive, and keep the bunny in the box. This explosive action spectacular is the best kind of popcorn movie to watch big and loud with a crowd of Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**

You know you can&#8217;t get enough Steve Buscemi! Take home deep cut treasures on glorious physical media tonight!

*Animal Factory, Trees Lounge, In the Soup*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Con Air

**Screenwriters**: Nick Kocher,  Brian McElhaney

**Producers**: Kelly McCormick,  David Leitch,  Aram Tertzakian,  Nick Spicer,  Guy Danella, Lee Kim

We want your Memorial Day weekend getaway to Vidiots to be a bloody good time, so we booked you a cabin in the woods to relax, unwind, and survive a half dozen murder plots! When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to kill the other. However, their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must soon figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.

Over Your Dead Body

**Screenwriter**: Roger Waters

**Producer**: Alan Marshall

*All in all you&#8217;re just another brick in the wall*. Penned by Pink Floyd&#8217;s own Roger Waters and directed by musical veteran Alan Parker, this psychedelic visual album is one of the most notorious rock musical movies ever. A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. With a mix of animation, gory imagery, war flashbacks, angst, drama, and an iconic soundtrack, this is a rock opera that needs to be heard through our killer speakers and seen on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Pink Floyd in concert and on these soundtracks tonight on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*More, La Vallee, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Pink Floyd: The Wall on 35mm

The Man In The Moon

The Dark Knight

Kiki’s Delivery Service

The Yellow Balloon

Ran (Chaos) in 35mm

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

The Tales of Hoffmann

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world &#8220;U&#8221; and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U&#8217;s eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.

BACKROOMS

7:30 PM

Shadow Kitchen presents: Rajee Samarasinghe

7:00 PM

Screening: *Of Color and Ink*

6:00 PM

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 1 & 2

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 & 16

10:00 PM

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?

7:30 PM

Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith - Exhibition Opening Reception

5:00 PM

Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

5:00 AM

North Star Sessions

8:00 PM

The Stranger

7:00 PM

eXistenZ

7:30 PM

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

White Lightning

8:00 PM

Screening: Of Color and Ink