### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Rose, an aspiring actress, checks into a remote California motel, seeking solace from the chaos of her life. But the walls of the motel pulse with the echoes of her past—each room a distorted reflection of her fears, desires and regrets. As reality warps and fractures, Rose must confront the haunting specters of her trauma, identity and the oppressive forces that have shaped her existence.

Julie Pacino’s feature debut is a visually arresting journey into the labyrinth of the female psyche. Shot on 35mm, I LIVE HERE NOW blends surrealist horror with psychological depth, drawing comparisons to Lynchian narratives and films like BLACK SWAN. With a standout performance by Lucy Fry, this film is a haunting exploration of self-worth, autonomy and the shadows that linger within.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Julie Pacino and actor Sheryl Lee Advance Screening

I LIVE HERE NOW in 35mm

Aero Theatre

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

Waiting for Guffman

Brain Dead Studios

Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Egyptian Theatre

[SOURCE-IMAGE]

Leaning towards the concept of *living archive*, and the ways personal and collective memory is prompted through images being made, held onto, circulated and revisited.

[SOURCE-IMAGE] is a series of silkscreen and photo-based works, featuring quietly unreleased material and new exercises in print by: Material Group.

“Over time, images accumulate meaning not through clarity, but through continued contact” - John Berger.

Rushing on the treadmill at the YMCA, a steep incline with no wireless headphones.

Noticing how the reporting on life in interview format - compressed into highlights - must gloss over the humanity of what is consistent, unremarkable, everyday.

Printmaking and daily life seem to share a deep parallel respect for what is a process.

It’s a relief sometimes, to know that images are not static - simply because we are not static.

Truly identifying with the snail, though never representing them in illustration (online ceramics © was all about the snail logo for a few years, if I remember correctly).

My desire would be to do a whole series on snails. A message centre in the form of daytime television called: Leaf Talk.

When life is giving and our state of mind is inspired, we tend to want to freeze the frameso as not to be reminded of how everything moves so quickly.

A snail would never actually tell us this (it would never make the final edit)!

It’s just the blueprint to another memory.

Works for the exhibition will join the artist in the sky and fit the designated airport

dimension allowance.

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On view at Heavy Manners Library from March 12,2026 until April 12,2026.

Bio :

Material Group is a screen-printing and design studio located in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

Operated independently, the studio is shaped by ongoing collaborations across music, event programming, small press publishing, art + design.

Contact:

JG

Website: [www.materialgroup.ca](http://www.materialgroup.ca/)

E-Mail: [materialgroupinbox@gmail.com](mailto:materialgroupinbox@gmail.com)

Currently Reading:* Listening To Stone, The Art And Life Of Isamu Noguchi by: HaydenHerrera (FSG)*

Next On The List: *Seeing <—> Making | Room for Thought by: Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels (Inventory Press)*

[Source Image]: New Works by Material Group

Heavy Manners Library

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann, is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the U.S., this audiovisual poem experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.

Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. It dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

“What a Wonderful World” presents a wide range of groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity and history across 120 years: altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

“What a Wonderful World” will unfold as an explorative journey, a cinematic mystery tour, a soul-stirring experience. It invites visitors to confront the secrets and fragilities of humanity while holding up a mirror to the state of the world today.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From Academy Award winning writer/director Jane Campion comes an extraordinary film based on the true story of undying love between renowned poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his spirited muse Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). In the wilds of 19th century England, a forbidden passion draws the two lovers ever closer—even as fate conspires to tear them apart. BRIGHT STAR takes you to a world where, though life may be fleeting, great art – and great love – last forever.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: UK/Australia/France

BRIGHT STAR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Korean with English subtitles. *

Donghwa (Ha Seongguk) is a fledgling poet in his thirties. He rejects material aspirations and seeks to lead a life dedicated to truth and beauty. On a lazy afternoon, he drives his girlfriend, Junhee (Kang Soyi), back to her parents’ home outside Seoul. In the driveway, they run into her father (Kwon Haehyo), who is strangely interested in Donghwa’s dinged up old car. He takes it for a spin around the block, then invites Donghwa to stay and meet the family: him, his wife (Cho Yunhee), who also writes poetry, and Junhee’s reclusive sister (Park Miso), who practices the gayageum, a traditional string instrument. They end up wiling away the day together, visiting a temple by the river, climbing the hill near the house, watching the sunset, and, sure enough, imbibing drinks. Egged on by Junhee’s dad, Donghwa gets progressively more drunk as the day advances. Finally, he makes a fool of himself at dinner. Then everything begins to unravel for the poet: his relationship, his art, his revolutionary ideals.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: South Korea

WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU

Los Feliz Theatre

Showgirls

New Beverly Cinema

Join us for the opening reception of In Every Flower The Face Of God, an exhibition of new mixed media work by Brian Merriam

In Every Flower the Face of God Exhibition - Opening Reception

The beautiful restoration of the earliest surviving feature directed by an Iranian woman, produced in secrecy and long unseen

Marva Nabili’s THE SEALED SOIL (1977) – Landmark of Iranian New Wave Cinema

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Matt Johnson,  Jay McCarrol

**Producers**: Matt Greyson,  Matthew Miller

The microcinema is heading back to the year 2008 for the funniest Canadian lo-fi indie buddy time travel comedy of the year! When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Laugh out loud funny, inventive, and magnificently DIY, you&#8217;ll never stop thanking the Canadian government for supporting independent film!

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

**Writer/Producer**: Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the ever-curious French cinema icon explores the little-known world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for that which society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, *The Gleaners and I *is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more fascinating documentaries? Try out these unsung gems!

*Sherman&#8217;s March, Off the Charts, The Dancing Outlaw*

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

The Gleaners and I

Vidiots

Django Unchained

Dragnet Girl/The Only Son

Vista Theatre

“One of the strangest movies I've ever seen.”-- Joe Bob Briggs

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Filled with miraculous monster effects and hallucinatory visions, BEYOND DREAM’S DOOR is the most accomplished horror film that ever escaped from Ohio. Ben hasn't been sleeping well. His dreams are filled with monsters and death. Seeking out answers, Ben pursues the hidden meanings of his nightmares. As the dreams grow increasingly lifelike, Ben fears that he's losing his grip on sanity, especially as those around him start turning up dead.

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Continuing the lineage of everything from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, this ambitious debut feature from filmmaker Jay Woelfel skillfully blends elements of surrealism, mystery, and grotesque and violent horror set-pieces.

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Originally relegated direct-to-video and extremely hard to find (until now), we are thrilled to be screening this new uncut restoration from 2021, which was painstakingly reconstructed shot by shot from the original, unedited 16mm camera negative by Vinegar Syndrome.

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**dir. Jay Woelfel, 1989***United States, digital projection*80 min, 1.33:1

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## Thursday, 3/127:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING$8 general admission, $7 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR (1989)

WHAMMY!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Reggie Dunlop is the coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a struggling minor-league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players who demolish the opposition and reignite the Chiefs’ fans.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

SLAP SHOT

Matt and Jay's plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, resulting in them accidentally travelling back to the year 2008.

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah.

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient&#8217;s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

Paprika

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, Russian, Vietnamese and French with English subtitles. *

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, THE DEER HUNTER follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: UK/USA

THE DEER HUNTER

*North American premiere of new director’s cut*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space.

DCP.

Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. 

DCP.

Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Conbody vs Everybody: Episodes 1–3

Hammer Museum

Come celebrate the nearing Spring with a night of comics read and performed live by five cartoonists at the vanguard of modern visual culture! For the benefit of Heavy Manners Library, experience wonder, delight, and a taste of the sublime before the works of four Los Angeles-based cartoonists and one touring from Portland, all them movers and shakers of West Coast independent sequential art.

**WHO: Quinn Amacher, Alayna Cabral, Luz Diaz, Maddy Peters, Sebastian Stone
WHAT: Comics reading by Los Angeles and Portland artists
WHEN: Friday, March 13th, 7-9 pm
WHERE: Heavy Manners Library, 1200 N Alvarado St

Quinn Amacher is a cartoonist and author of stories about motion and emotion. Made with hybrid digital/traditional media and in a variety of genres, her comix reframe the mundane and the banal into the fantastic and the absurd, disrupting our assumed inevitabilities and reconnecting the reader to the space of potential.

Alayna Cabral is a sequential artist, animator, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA. They have over 10 years of experience working in the animation industry as a storyboard artist, working on shows for Disney TVA, Warner Bros. and more. Along with working for studios, they self publish their own comic work and zines, and they have also created independent animated shorts that have screened world wide.

Luz Diaz, aka Bendita Garlopa, is an Argentine artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her artwork and comics are inspired entirely** by the things that confuse her the most.

Maddy Peters is a cartoonist who loves drawing unreasonable people and nightmarish situations. Her comics can be found in shops like Golden Apple and The Pop Hop, and at local comics fairs and zine fests. She is represented by 839 Gallery. In 2025, she self-published her first graphic novel, "The Baby Man," and she is currently writing and drawing a medical drama series called "Lion&#x27;s Gate." She ultimately makes comics because she finds life very funny.

Sebastian Stone is a dragon and multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. His vibrant, dense imagery carries across tattooing, painting and comics. The compulsion to self-publish as a zinester and self-actuate as a furry become one hybrid beast.

Freak Friday Comix Reading (3/13)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

“Who are…you?”

Mima Kirigoe, a former pop idol, makes a bold transition into acting, taking on a role in a drama that includes a disturbing assault scene, and even releasing a provocative nude photo book. Her dramatic reinvention grabs public attention, but also provokes unease among her fans, her manager and even herself as she struggles with the rapid shift from her days as a pop idol. As a stalker begins to shadow her, a screenwriter and a photographer are murdered one after another. “Did I kill them?” Mima begins to wonder if a split personality is gradually taking over, just like the character that she plays in the drama. Then “the other Mima” the pop idol who was supposed to have “graduated,” appears in front of her…

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

PERFECT BLUE

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

QUEEN KELLY opens in the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau, sometime before the first World War, where the vain and cruel Queen Regina V (Seena Owen) obsesses over her feckless fiancé (Walter Byron), Prince “Wild” Wolfram. When the dissolute prince encounters an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), he falls in love. Desperate to see her before his upcoming wedding to the Queen, he kidnaps Kelly and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she whips the nightgowned girl and throws her out into the night. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Kelly returns to the convent, where she receives a telegram, summoning her to the bedside of her dying aunt (Florence Gibson) in Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. There, the innocent young girl is shocked to find herself in a seedy bordello. On her deathbed, Kelly’s aunt begs her niece to wed the syphilitic brothel owner, Jan (Tully Marshall).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA

QUEEN KELLY

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Filipino with English subtitles.*

A nation’s trauma wrapped in a chilling allegory, ITIM is a 1970s folk horror spell from Filipino filmmaking powerhouse Mike De Leon (KISAPMATA). A man returns to his countryside home and falls for a woman seemingly possessed by the spirit of his missing sister, who now demands he solve the mystery behind her disappearance and uncover the truth. Haunting imagery and shockingly transgressive themes set the perfect backdrop for a country grappling with the wounded spirit of its history in this fiery, mournful masterpiece.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Severin Films

COUNTRY: Philippines

50th Anniversary ‘Directed by Mike De Leon’

ITIM

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Season 2, Episode 1, “May The Giant Be With You,” Dir. David Lynch, 93 Mins**

Agent Cooper, who has been shot, sees a vision of a giant.

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.

“May The Giant Be With You” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 1

The Decameron

True Romance

For artists, gig workers, witches in businesses, small business owners, performers, tik tok stars, etc, who don't want to do their business taxes alone and have tax questions they want answered by a CPA who isn't 90 years old or uncomfortably talkative.

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**Screenwriters**: Isao Takahata, Nosaka Akiyuki

**Producer**: Toru Hara

Join us for Isao Takahata&#8217;s masterwork of animation, a stunning and enduring story of human resilience in the face of the cruelties and personal and universal tragedies of war. Beautifully depicting the real life accounts of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki, this touching film starts in the final days of World War II. After their mother is killed by an American air raid, a family of orphans is forced to survive in a bomb shelter, clinging to their fleeting moments of happiness in their bleak and brutal reality.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Isao Takahata? Our Studio Ghibli section has tons of animated marvels, including these treasures!

*The Tale of Princess Kayuga, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Only Yesterday*

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

Grave of the Fireflies

**Screenwriter**: Michel Franco

**Producers**: Michel Franco,  Alexander Rodnyansky,  Eréndira Núñez Larios

Join us in the microcinema for Michel Franco&#8217;s shocking new tense and sensual provocation starring Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández. A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he crosses the US-Mexico border and lands a starring role in the local ballet company, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together as well as her comfortable and privileged existence. Sexy, timely, and sobering, this disquieting gem will take you on a ride of emotions from lust to disgust with an ending that will haunt you for days.

Dreams

**Screenwriter**: Hype Williams

**Producers**: Larry Meistrich,  Ron Rotholz,  Robert Salerno,  Hype Williams, Avram &#8220;Butch&#8221; Kaplan

Get ready for DMX and Nas to take over the streets in Hype Williams&#8217; visually stunning crime drama. The only feature film in Hype Williams&#8217; storied career of directing over 200 music videos, after literally making a name for himself through graffiti, *Belly* goes beyond the average street drama. Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more films with Hip Hop royalty? We&#8217;ve got these bangers and so many more!

*High Life* (André 3000), *Set it Off* (Queen Latifah), *How High?* (Method Man and Redman)

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

Belly

**Producer**: Spike Jonze

Vidiots is pumped to welcome back **Johnny Knoxville** for the sequel with no equal &#8211; *Jackass Number Two*!

Is it the highest level of conceptual art of the 21st century or the stupidest thing you&#8217;ve ever seen? *You* get to decide in the sequel that would make Vito Acconci blush as the *Jackass* boys hit the big screen a second time with more stunts, pranks, and ridiculousness than you can shake a venomous king cobra at! Behold as Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to ratchet the stakes higher than ever before with snakes, bulls, giant hoses, shopping cart launchers, Busby-Berkeleyesque dance numbers, and pranks that will make you puke! With cameos from Tony Hawk, Mike Judge, and the Pope of Trash John Waters, it&#8217;s an All-Star bonanza of bad decisions!

Co-presented by the **Eagle Rock Run Club. **LA Marathon runners – show off your medal and we’ll have a special surprise for you at concessions!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Johnny Knoxville (in front of *and* behind the camera) tonight on glorious physical media!

*A Dirty Shame, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Being Evel*

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

Jackass Number Two

Project Hail Mary - 70mm Early Access

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

The Warriors

Los Angeles Filmforum and Rotations present *Gunvor Nelson Tribute Trilogy, Tribute 1: Red Shift*. Co-presented with the Academy Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

In-person introduction by Steve Anker!

Screenings:

Red Shift

1984, 50 minutes, B&W, SOUND, 16mm

Red Shift is one of Nelson’s most admired films, a dense narrative film about family relations in which the various roles are played by members of her family.

Frame Line

1983, 22 minutes, B&W, SOUND, 16mm

Frame Line is Nelson’s first collage film. The film that inaugurated her original series of animated films, all made at the Film Workshop in Stockholm.

Time Being

1991, 8 minutes, B&W, SILENT, 16mm

Time Being is a commemoration in four sequences of Nelson’s mother.

TRT: 80 min

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A pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film who never shied away from challenges, Nelson's innovative films combine painting, collage, and sound experimentation, embodying humor, resistance, intimacy, and tactile sensation. Nelson’s family and generational study Red Shift (1984), and her painfully sensitive portrayal of her dying mother in Time Being (1991) are regarded as the high points of her family and hometown productions.

This retrospective will be co-presented by LA Filmforum, Rotations, the Academy Museum, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu and Steve Anker.

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Full program notes and film lineup: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

LA Filmforum & Rotations: Gunvor Nelson Tribute - Red Shift

2220 Arts + Archives

98th Oscars Wildcard Winner

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Tragedy seems to follow Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) everywhere she goes. After a domestic dispute results in the death of both of her parents, Pearl moves in with her aunt, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), on a Texas farm. When Pearl notices Laura Belle’s son, the fiery Lewt (Gregory Peck), life on the ranch erupts into chaos. The two have a brief courtship, but Lewt abruptly ends the relationship. When Pearl tries to move on, Lewt’s jealousy leads to a climactic gun battle between the former lovers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

New 4K Restoration 80th Anniversary ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

DUEL IN THE SUN

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept&#8217;s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

The Holy Mountain

*A loser gets dumped. A weird experi**ment goes crazy. **A dangerous Dance Freak runs wild.*

A FEATURE LENGTH MOVIE: In a secret government facility, a team of scientists have done impossible, indescribable things. Genetic mutations, inter-dimensional experiments: nasty top secret stuff. They played GOD. And like GOD they are all probably dead. The filmmakers only had like $45,000 to make this movie and they ran out of that money almost immediately so a lot of that stuff is just implied through dialogue. There is dancing, but it isn’t that crazy. Also the movie gets loud sometimes, but it’s not that long.

Dance Freak

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

50th Anniversary ‘Starring Robert Duvall’

NETWORK

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

2nd SUNDAY  70mm PLUS series. Columbia’s most celebrated title! Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port. Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture of 1962, Lawrence of Arabia stands as one of the most timeless and essential motion picture masterpieces. The greatest achievement of its legendary, Oscar -winning director, David Lean (1962, Lawrence of Arabia: 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai), the film stars Peter Otoole, in his career-making performance as T.E. Lawrence, the audacious World War I British army officer who heroically united rival Arab desert tribes and led them to war against the mighty Turkish Empire.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Fine Arts Theatre

The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each *Family Flicks* program.

If adolescence can sometimes look a little messy on the outside that’s because it’s complete emotional chaos on the inside. Pixar’s instant classic about growing up takes us inside the mind of Riley, a rural teenager whose struggle with alienation after a big city move is compounded by her personified feelings, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, who must learn to appreciate each other so Riley can thrive again in her new environment.

DCP. Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. Screenwriter: Josh Cooley. With: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind. 

*Recommended for ages 6+*

Inside Out

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her Emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler); Fear (Bill Hader); Anger (Lewis Black); Disgust (Mindy Kaling); and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). Although Joy, Riley's main and most important Emotion, tries to keep things positive, the Emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. (2015, Dir. Pete Docter, DCP, color, 95 min.)

Family Flicks: Inside Out

In this D&B Films production, Jane (Loletta Lee), a rebellious student from a lower-class background, is saved by May (May Lo), who comes from a wealthy family. The film follows their friendship and respective romances in this coming-of-age tale, engaging with the changing economic and social realities of Hong Kong’s booming 1980s. *Devoted to You* was one of many youth romance films starring teen idols that also functioned as quasi-music videos — especially as a vehicle for Cantonese pop star Jacky Cheung, who plays May’s love interest.

Director/Screenwriter: Clifton Ko.. With: May Lo, Loletta Lee, Jacky Cheung, Michael Wong.

Here, one of the Hong Kong New Wave’s most renowned directors, Stanley Kwan, crafts a haunting portrait of urban disillusionment. Produced by D&B Films, this melancholic drama stars Tony Leung and Chow Yun-fat as part of a circle of young dreamers undone by romance, betrayal and tragedy. Blending noir mystery with aching sadness, Kwan transforms a tale of pleasure and decay into a meditation. Under the neon glow of a restless city, intimacy, ambition, and despair unceremoniously coexist to poignant effect.

Director: Stanley Kwan. Screenwriters: Lai Kit, Yau-tai On-ping (Chiu Kang-chien). With: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Elaine Jin, Irene Wan, Chow Yun-fat.

*—guest programmer Janet Louie*

Devoted to You / Love Unto Waste

Please note: This screening takes place at 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057

Total runtime: 80 min.

*Red Shift* is one of Gunvor Nelson’s most admired films, a dense narrative film about family relations in which the various roles are played by members of her family. The film merges two diegetic times, both present and past, and pending between close-ups and long shots. Nelson’s depiction of family life is both candid and considerate, displaying an amalgamation of emotions ranging from delight to distress.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Frame Line* is Nelson’s first collage film. The film that inaugurated her original series of animated films, all made at the Film Workshop in Stockholm. *Frame Line* is a reflection on Stockholm and Sweden, on Nelson’s return to her native country and a place that is both familiar and distant, both beautiful and ugly at the same time. The film begins with images and glimpses of Stockholm that Nelson has collected, then developing this audiovisual material into a new visual work where animation becomes a way of discovering both what the camera has captured and what can be created anew through free association.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Time Being* is a commemoration in four sequences of Nelson’s mother. The film that starts and ends with lengthy black leader, is a brutal yet beautiful depiction of her mother dying and how the bond between them is cut off. After a prologue follows a series of three shots, each beginning in static takes of her mother lying in a bed at a hospital. For each shot the distance to the mother increases and the camera moves closer towards Nelson.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Off-site: Gunvor Nelson Tribute I: Red Shift

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.

Dive into a powerful educational series bridging generations through film, dialogue, and critical media literacy. Curated and facilitated by legendary KAOS Network founder Ben Caldwell, L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin, and LACMA assistant curator of film Matazi Weathers, this series spotlights bold works by local filmmakers, surprise guest appearances, and unfiltered conversations on the role of storytelling in shaping cultural consciousness, both locally and globally.

Our January session will focus on honoring the life and work of Nigerian L.A. Rebellion filmmaker, painter, and author Ijeoma IIoputaife (1951–2025), also known as Omah Diegu and ‘oma ‘taife The first African woman to study film at UCLA, she was part of the second generation of the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers, also called the L.A. Rebellion. Today, her short film *African Women, U.S.A.* (1980) is one of the standard works of feminist African-American cinema. After returning to Nigeria, she lived in Germany for a while which led to the autobiographical documentary *The Snake in my Bed* (1995) made in collaboration with Das kleine Fernsehspiel.

Co-presented by KAOS Network and LACMA’s Aspect Ratio.

KAOS/LACMA Cultural Literacy Collider

LACMA

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*In Italian with English subtitles.*

Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s SEDUCED AND ABANDONED was the follow-up to his international sensation DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE, and in many ways it’s even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Stefania Sandrelli) loses her virginity at the hands of her sister’s lascivious fiance.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy

Introduction by filmmaker Jim Cummings ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Jim Cummings Presents SEDUCED AND ABANDONED

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A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows—Veronica, Linda, Alice and Belle—have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses’ criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, Veronica joins forces with the other three women to pull off a heist that her husband was planning. Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya and Robert Duvall.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK/USA

WIDOWS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Filipino and Ilocano with English subtitles.*

One Sunday in November, Mila (Charo Santos) announces to her father Dadang (Vic Silayan), a retired police officer, that she is pregnant, asking for permission to marry her co-worker Noel (Jay Ilangan). The noose tightens as Dadong’s unreasonable expectations for a dowry are not met and he exhibits an increasingly authoritarian streak. When the couple marries, Mila’s father begins a game of exclusion and manipulation to reassert control over his kin. Based on the true crime reportage “The House on Zapote Street” penned by Nick Joaquin, Mike De Leon’s KISAPMATA, beautifully restored in 4K by L’Immagine Ritrovata, is a stunning example of psychological horror that meticulously tightens the noose around its characters’ neck until the outcome feels inevitable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Philippines

4K Restoration ‘Directed by Mike De Leon’

KISAPMATA

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*In Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, and English with English subtitles.*

The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davies Jr.’s MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds. Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut – centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (SLOW HORSES, GANGS OF LONDON) – that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: UK/Nigeria

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

The Lickerish Quartet / Therese and Isabelle

Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room. The day before, the maid had quit. In the room, G.H. faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate. Facing the insect, G.H. descends into an existential Via Crucis. This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day. Based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.

The Passion According to G.H.

Now Instant Image Hall

Suzuki's feverish phantasmagoria of theatrical illusion, haunted memory, and obsessive longing!

Seijun Suzuki's TAISHŌ TRILOGY:  KAGERO-ZA (1981)

**Screenwriters**: Nicholas Stoller,  Matthew Robinson

**Producer**: Kristin Burr

Grab your backpack, your monkey, and your sense of adventure for a cinematic journey to a lost Inca civilization. Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization. Bring your little explorers for big screen excitement from everyone&#8217;s favorite explorer!

Coge tu mochila, tu mono y tu sentido de la aventura para un viaje cinematográfico a una civilización inca perdida. Dora, una chica que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida explorando la jungla con sus padres, ahora debe enfrentarse a su aventura más peligrosa hasta ahora: la escuela secundaria. Siempre exploradora, Dora se encuentra rápidamente guiando a Boots (su mejor amigo, un mono), Diego y un grupo extraño de adolescentes en una aventura para salvar a sus padres y resolver el misterio imposible detrás de una civilización inca perdida. ¡Trae a tus pequeños exploradores para la emoción en pantalla grande del explorador favorito de todos!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to explore more with Dora? Take home these adventures on physical media!

*Dora the Explorer: It&#8217;s a Party, Dora the Explorer: World Adventure, Dora the Explorer: Super Babies*

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

Dora and the Lost City of Gold en Español

**Producers**: Pierre-Olivier Bardet,  Frederick Wiseman

Vidiots remembers the legacy of documentary filmmaking icon **Frederick Wiseman** with a screening of his artistic masterpiece *National Gallery*.

Frederick Wiseman’s *National Gallery* takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. *National Gallery *is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home six decades worth of Frederick Wiseman &#8211; including these treasures

*Titticut Follies, Model, Welfare, The Store, Meat*

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

National Gallery

**Screenwriter**: Louise Weard

**Producers**: Dakota Blais, Remy Boydell, Heather Buckley, Aoife Josie Clements, Hazel Norwood, Elizabeth Purchell, Mark Wilmot

*Castration Movie *is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard.The second part of *Castration Movie *(running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter:

In *Chapter iii. Polygon!!!! Heartmoder*, Circle (Lex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York.

“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” &#8211; Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, *Manhunt)***

“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” &#8211; Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, *Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film*)

“Watching *Castration Movie* got me so hyped for the future of film.” &#8211; Morgan M. Page (writer, *Framing Agnes*)

“*Castration Movie *is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” &#8211; Theda Hammel (filmmaker, *Stress Positions*)

Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds

Vidiots welcomes back our found footage besties **Museum of Home Video** with an event they like to call &#8220;the Super Bowl for moviegoers&#8221;.  **Every** movie is fascinating for its first five minutes: that brief moment before it either hooks you or loses you.  For the **5 Minutes Game**, we&#8217;ve lined up ten unpredictable movies you’ve never seen or heard of.  We’ll watch the first five minutes of each &#8212; and then you, the audience votes on what we’ll watch in full.  If you think you’ve uncovered all the strange videos left to discover, think again!

This event is co-hosted / co-curated by **Josh Miller** (co-screenwriter of *Violent Night* and the *Sonic The Hedgehog* movie franchise!)

**Museum of Home Video** is a found footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers. Each week at museumofhomevideo.com, VJs Bret Berg, Jenny Nixon and IVOR mix the best and wildest bits of late-night talk, game shows, local programming, movie wowzers, and commercial breaks. Like Weird Al’s *UHF* with a college radio vibe, the site’s other dazing and amazing streams include *Musicvideodrome* and the kids-themed *Playtime*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more found footage weirdness? Dive deep with these obscure treasures:

TV Carnage presents* Casual Fridays, Animal Charm, The Educational Archives: Social Engineering 101***

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

The 5 Minutes Game presented by The Museum of Home Video

Project Hail Mary 70mm

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*In Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles.*

Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic state lawyer (Alexander Kuznetsov) pushes past the prison’s leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik (Aleksandr Filippenko). The young attorney, determined to expose the miscarriages of justice that landed the man in confinement, finds the eye of the state turned on him instead, as an ever-tightening net encircles his investigation. Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Germany

Q&A with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa Advance Screening ‘Sergei Loznitsa: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

TWO PROSECUTORS

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A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia and Steve Martin.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by actor and fitness instructor Angie Shriner 40th Anniversary ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

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In 1940s Los Angeles, Detective Tom Spellacy (Robert Duvall) probes into the savage murder of a woman found dumped in an empty lot. At the same time, he investigates a priest found dead in a whorehouse. Spellacy’s brother (Robert De Niro), a Catholic priest, is meanwhile attempting to expand his church through Jack (Charles Durning), a shady contractor. While the two police cases and the real estate deal seem a world apart, Spellacy discovers an insidious connection involving money and power.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

TRUE CONFESSIONS

The Depraved / Campus Swingers

**Screenwriter**: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

**Producers**: Cattleya Paosrijeroen,  Soros Sukhum

Join us in the microcinema for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke&#8217;s dark comedy fable of romance, melancholy, and consumerism. March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

A Useful Ghost

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**Season 2, Episode 4, “Laura’s Secret Diary,” Dir. Todd Holland, 46 Mins**

Agent Cooper gets a strange request to save a life.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 5, “The Orchids Curse,” Dir. Graeme Clifford, 47 Mins**

Agent Cooper and Truman lead a raid on One-Eyed Jacks.

FORMAT: DCP

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**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.

“Laura’s Secret Diary” and “The Orchids Curse” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 4 & 5

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d’état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Atoms & Void

COUNTRY: Netherlands

Q&A with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa L.A. Premiere ‘Sergei Loznitsa: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

THE TRIAL

Henry & June

Join us as we celebrate Manly P. Hall's birthday with recollections from Stephan Hoeller, an esteemed lecturer at PRS since the 1970s

Manly P. Hall: Prophet of Consciousness, a talk with Stephan Hoeller

Brute Force/Criss-Cross

Hollywood Entertainment and Philosophical Research Society's 7th House are honored to present the inimitable Bud Cort’s sole feature as director, co-writer, and star: *Ted & Venus*. With an introduction by Bridey Elliott!

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Dedicated with love to the memories of his Harold and Maude collaborators Ruth Gordon, Hal Ashby, and Colin Higgins, *Ted & Venus* is a subversive spiritual sequel and a hilariously strange Venice Beach love (and obsession) letter set to the music of Swamp Dogg.

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A demented twist on the romcom, the film reframes cinema’s lovestruck obsessives for what many of them are: deluded stalkers. When Ted (a poet, played by Cort) falls for his social worker, Linda (Kim Adams), he pursues her relentlessly…

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With an ethereal cast including Carol Kane, Gena Rowlands, James Brolin, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Andrea Martin, Cassandra Peterson, Dr. Timothy Leary, + more!

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Ted and Venus will be preceded by Bridey Elliott’s short film *Affections* (2016) co-starring Bud Cort.

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**dir. Bud Cort, 1991***United States, digital projection*100 min

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## Tuesday, 3/247:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING$12 general admission, $11 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

TED & VENUS (1991), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & 7th House

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**MY JOY, 2010, Dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 128 Mins, Kino Lorber, Ukraine/Netherlands/Germany/France**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

Truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) sets out on a provincial Russian highway for a routine delivery, but after a series of chance encounters his journey spirals out of control. A roadside police check, a talkative war veteran, and a too-young prostitute lead him to a village from which there appears to be no way out where the locals struggle to survive a tough, elemental world, and the past holds a vise-like grip over their everyday lives. Caught in a merciless dead end, Georgy’s unexpected fate is the crux of Loznitsa’s unique and original feature debut.

FORMAT: DCP

**DONBASS, 2018, Dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 122 Mins, Film Movement, Ukraine**

*In Russian, Ukrainian and English with English subtitles.*

In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa ‘Sergei Loznitsa: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

MY JOY / DONBASS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A cam girl navigates a toxic client relationship while reconnecting with her estranged, dying father, exploring complex relationships and family dynamics.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Katarina Zhu ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

BUNNYLOVR

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join us for a night of debut shorts from women directors! The Women Wednesday Night of Shorts features impressive debut short films from local up-and-coming filmmakers and a Q&A.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

*Full lineup to be announced!*

‘Women Wednesday 2026’ Guests and full lineup to be announced!

Women Wednesday Night of Shorts Part 2

A.S. Hamrah joins fellow Writer and Film Critic Sandi Tan to discuss film criticism and Hamrah&#8217;s two new books *Algorithm of the Night* and *Last Week in End Times Cinema.*

Last Week in End Times Cinema, Algorithm of the Night

The Caine Mutiny

FILM DIARY NYC is a biennial festival of experimental, autobiographical films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker. The 4th edition, *Go to the Mountains and Pray*,  features 170 new works by a diverse array of artists from across the world. The Los Angeles Satellite program at Whammy offers a one-night screening of 8 films that represent the range of the festival programming: from the formally experimental to the observational; from auto-fiction to home movie archives; from found footage and new media to 16mm and analogue film techniques.

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Tourniquet

Marceline Chevako, USA, 8 Min

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I Would’ve Been Happy

Jordan Wong, USA, 9 Min

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Piñata Prayers

Daniel Larios, El Salvador / USA, 24 Min

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Looking For You Looking For Me

Wes Weisbaum, USA, 5 Min

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typhoon diary 风球日记

Helix Zhang, USA, 6 Min

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Magic Mountain

Valentina Rosset, Brazil, 7 Min

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Padre Nuestro

Emanuel Christopher Castro, USA, 15 Min

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Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth

Laura Ohio, USA / Canada, 24 Min

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“An organization unparalleled in our current moment within the New York film world.”

- Devon Narine-Singh, filmmaker, educator (CU Boulder)

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“A community of artists committed to cutting through the bullshit, excited to use any and all media to increase our understanding & create authentic connection.”

- Julie Perini, filmmaker, educator (Portland State University)

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“This festival is what real artistic community can look and feel like, and these filmmakers give me hope for the future of art on screen”

- Ife Olujobi, filmmaker, writer

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“Exciting ideas...Very much in the spirit of the kind of film community that my father helped to foster and support.”

- Sebastian Mekas

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## Total Runtime: 98 Min

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## Wednesday, 3/257:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

## Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers present, led by writer Chris Shields.

## ‍$10 general admission, $8 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

FILM DIARY 4: GO TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PRAY

Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #1: Flames in Dark Places (1962-74)

Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery.

The Juniper Tree

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A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Daniel Kraus Book signing with Daniel Kraus for his new book, Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at the Los Feliz 3, in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Filipino with English subtitles.*

A coming-of-age story of college student Joey, who’s lost all sense of direction. His only inspiration is music, but he has yet to finish writing a song. His life changes when he meets Ana and his world is suddenly turned upside-down.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: ABS-CBN Film Productions

COUNTRY: Philippines

MOMENTS IN A STOLEN DREAM

Amuck! /

The Los Angeles premiere of the restoration of Robert Bresson&#8217;s *The Devil, Probably* is presented with an introduction from Writer and Film Critic A.S. Hamrah.

The Devil, Probably

Join Titmouse for the **20th anniversary of 5 Second Day** at the LA premiere of their annual **5 Second Day… Night!!!** animation showcase, featuring a special introduction from studio co-founder **Chris Prynoski**.

This special anniversary edition will feature a unique, uncensored compilation of brand new short-form cartoons created by Titmouse animators and creative staff as part of the studio’s long-running *5 Second Day* tradition, alongside a curated selection of standout shorts from the past 20 years of the event, giving audiences a rare chance to revisit some of the weirdest, wildest, and most unforgettable cartoons from two decades of *5 Second Day*.

**About 5 Second Day: **

An annual tradition where Titmouse shuts down production for 24 hours across its Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, and Paris studio locations, giving its artists a fully paid day to unleash their most quirky, beautiful, bizarre, and laugh-out-loud ideas. 

For more information, [https://5secondday.com](https://5secondday.com)

Titmouse Presents: 5 Second Day… Night!!!

The Snow Woman/The Haunted Castle

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Georgian with English captions.*

Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father, Irakli (David Koberidze), picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment. His search-and-rescue trip defies her wishes not to be followed. With a disembodied voice in his passenger seat, he embarks on a winding pastoral picaresque, marked by the recurring gaggles of adolescents, wild dogs, and oral histories he encounters along the way. Undulating between impressionistic reverie and subversive detective story, Irakli’s near-fruitless search invites us to see—with renewed eyes—the quotidian elements which constitute both cinema and life.

Shot with a pixelated W595 Sony Ericsson phone camera, DRY LEAF stands as a palpable salvo on cinematic degrowth. While director Alexandre Koberidze teeters on the edge of a formal gimmick to challenge technological tyranny, his characters swim against the false currents of modern life. Taking an audacious leap of faith after his breakthrough WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? and harkening back to his low-res debut LET THE SUMMER NEVER COME AGAIN, Koberidze reignites the threadbare wonders of cinematic language in spectacular, big-screen fashion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Georgia/Germany

Q&A with filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze and composer Giorgi Koberidze L.A. Premiere

DRY LEAF

**Please note**: This screening takes place at the Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Total runtime: 74 min.

This was the film that set everything in motion. *Schmeerguntz*, coined after Gunvor Nelson’s father’s nonsense word for “sandwich” (*smörgås* in Swedish), is a hilarious, grotesque and grave attack on the public ideal of the American housewife. Critic Ernest Callenbach wrote in excitement that “A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as *Schmeerguntz* shown everywhere.”—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley.

*My Name is Oona* was Nelson’s final breakthrough on the American avant-garde film scene. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona.” The latter is edited into an expressive rhythmical structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child where both bliss and fear reign. As so often in Nelson’s oeuvre, there is a female subtext too: it is male voices that execute their authority upon Oona, whereas as a girl she is still equal to boys of her own age.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University.* 

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Fog Pumas* is the second film that Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley shot together. It received one of the grand prizes at the Knokke Experimental Film Festival, EXPRMTL, in 1967-68. The film is a hilarious, liberating exploration of absurd imagery and situations in which Nelson and Wiley also make fun of some classical avant-garde film techniques. It is an empowering film, made in the spirit of exploring the potentialities of filmmaking and insisting upon having fun while doing it.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Moons Pool* marks a new path in Gunvor Nelson’s filmmaking in which she develops her interest in creating a weave of movements and superimpositions. The film that is mostly shot underwater, in a pool, begins with footage of water and a close-up of Nelson from which we move to her body immersed in water in a bathtub. Another transition occurs to a pool with male and female naked bodies swimming underwater. The latter part of the film is almost totally liberated from speech, and has a dreamlike, complex soundtrack consisting of sounds of waves, voices, water and music woven together into a seamless web of sounds.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Movement begins and ends with snowflakes, fleeting, floating, whirling and dancing in constant restlessness. Sudden changes in direction, composition, background, density, color and contrast interrupt the perpetual flow.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Off-site: Gunvor Nelson Tribute II: Moons Pool

Join us for a night of music featuring solo performances by Dustin Wong, thunderwerld, Randy Randall, and strangejane.

Dustin Wong, thunderwerld, Randy Randall, strangejane

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Yellow Veil Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Addison Heimann and actors Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jordan Gavaris and Marlene Forte L.A. Premiere

TOUCH ME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Taking much of its inspiration from Homer’s* The Odyssey*, this Coen brothers comedy stars George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson as escaped convicts in Depression-era Mississippi. On a wild goose chase for loot from a previous crime, the trio encounter bluesmen, bank robbers, Bible thumpers and politicos, and become unlikely hitmakers as the “Soggy Bottom Boys” (in real life, the film’s bluegrass-filled soundtrack topped charts and won three Grammys). Costarring John Goodman.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK/USA/France

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

Before his untimely death, William Pope.L was commissioned to make a new work for MONUMENTS. Though this never came to fruition, Pope.L’s 2012 film *Reenactor* engages with the Lost Cause leisure activity of battlefield re-enactments. In celebration of his life, The Brick is pleased to present two nights of Pope.L video works in partnership with Now Instant.

*Please note: seating is limited. Doors open thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served. **This film is non-narrative and attendees are invited to come and go as they please.*

I LIVE HERE NOW in 35mm

7:30 PM

Waiting for Guffman

8:00 PM

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

[Source Image]: New Works by Material Group

7:00 PM

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

5:00 PM

BRIGHT STAR

7:00 PM

WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU

10:00 PM

Showgirls

7:30 PM

In Every Flower the Face of God Exhibition - Opening Reception

6:00 PM

Marva Nabili’s THE SEALED SOIL (1977) – Landmark of Iranian New Wave Cinema

7:00 PM

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

7:00 PM

The Gleaners and I

7:30 PM

Django Unchained

Dragnet Girl/The Only Son

7:30 PM

BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR (1989)

8:00 PM