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Fri July 25 - WANDA (Barbara Loden, 1970, 103 mins) - "With her first and only feature film - a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in - Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men - including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins." -Criterion  ~  View trailer HERE  (presented from a beautiful Kodachrome 16mm film print!)

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Fri Aug 8, 5-8pm - MAX NORDILE: Janitor of the Seasons [art exhibition opening reception] - Painting/sculpture by Olympia Washington-based artist & musician. Live musical performance & refreshments provided.  ~  Max Nordile (b. 1982, San Diego CA) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Olympia, WA. His visual art practice deals in multi-media assemblage; appropriating found objects into three dimensional sculptures for the wall and floor. Nordile’s musical practice is much the same, utilizing found sounds and field recordings to recontextualize and obfuscate their origin within freely improvised studio play. As a musician, he has both performed and recorded extensively in numerous bands and solo projects - in addition to having curated events and toured throughout the United States consistently since 2004. Nordile has released albums on Gilgongo Records, Post Present Medium, Radical Documents, PHYSICAL, Regional Bears, and Music For People (the artist's own label). Funny Pages, selections from a decade of Nordile’s sketchbooks, was published by 24/7 Press and from 2013-2023 Nordile self-published 40 issues of Droppings: An Art and Humor Magazine. His visual art has been exhibited widely including exhibitions at TCMoFA  (Olympia WA), Store Front Gallery (Oakland CA), Silent Barn (Brooklyn), 24/7 Gallery (Seattle), AK Gallery (Seaside OR), and The Space (NYC).  ~   Statement: Janus (‘door-jamb’), son of Ouranos and Hecate, brother of Cronus, father of the Hours siblings, stands columnar at the threshold of Olympus. In endless repetition, he is a custodian of a single moment in time: when the old season turns into the new. Born of a ball of mud that bounced down a crevice in the Earth, Janus was nurtured on offal and grubs as a rugrat. He escaped Inner Earth to the River Styx and floated his way to the Upper World. Warming under the Sun’s rays, he began to sprout multitudinous body parts. In a hideously mutated state and feared by local villagers, he lived in a self-imposed hermitage. Eventually (700 years later), he was accepted as a harmless forest lurker. However, after sheltering his half-brother Cronus from the Gods during their war with the Titans, he was assaulted by thunder-bolts. In return for mercy, he squealed like a pig, revealing Cronus to the Gods. Upon capture, the Titans were exiled to the Islands Of The Blessed, but Janus got bumped up to the Heavens, spared, but punished for his treachery. They cut his faces down to only two and made him immobile, a pillar on the doorstep of time. He remains alienated from his labor to this day, a midwife of historical effluvium. From nursery to effigy, he’s seen it all, and all at once. “Immortality is kinda a drag, man - having to stare simultaneously at the past and the future. But better than the alternative I guess, and anyway, I get to actually use my faces. This way, there IS no verso. Decent work if you can get it!”  (live music at 7:30pm!)

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Fri Aug 22 - Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde - A program of short films curated by Chicago-based critic/programmer/educator Joshua Minsoo Kim that highlights work created 2024-2025 by some of the best Korean experimental filmmakers today.  ~  FULL PROGRAM: A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, 2025, silent, b/w, 10 mins), Rotating Signals (Chae Yu, 2025, sound, color, 10 mins), Bye, Snark, Boo-Jum! (Jiyong In, 2024, silent, b/w, 8 mins), Shadow-Forest: Apple Tree for the Extinct Prophecy Bird (Go-Eun Im, 2025, sound, color, 10 mins), Geomeunyeo (Kyujae Park, 2025, sound, b/w, 3 mins), Buseok (Kyujae Park, 2024, silent, b/w + color, 18 mins)

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Fri Sept 12 - an historical overview of CANADIAN experimental film - guest curated by Stephen Broomer

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Fri Sept 26 - the short films of GRETA SNIDER - A mini-retrospective of works created 1989-2025  (filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco + post-screening Q&A)

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Fri Oct 10 - TOSCA'S KISS (Il Bacio di Tosca) ~ (directed by Daniel Schmid, 1984, 87 mins, color, sound, italian language / english subtitles) - Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In this documentary, director Daniel Schmid captures a world in which octogenarian divas re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past. ~ "When an aging diva declares, 'You’ll find me singing two hours after my death,' the already obvious is made abundantly clear: these artists’ lives are their careers. They have defined themselves through their musical production and now are daring death to silence their melodic soundings. In fact, death is waiting patiently in the wings; it is the motor of Tosca’s Kiss, the delineator of its insistent yet fading figures... When the camera pans the ceiling of Casa Verdi, architecture and history make their presence known. Hands tensely envelop pocketbooks and the click of a door handle reveals volumes on property and Italian cultural life. Frayed costumes, diplomas, and photographs mark moments, sites, and celebrations long ago digested by a voracious memory. Casa Verdi is a kind of cranky congregation of sentiment, artistry, and death that thankfully maintains more than a touch of sharp, ironic humor." -Barbara Kruger, Art Forum ~ view trailer

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Fri Oct 24 - SANTET (directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, 1988, 94 mins, color, sound, indonesian language / english subtitles) - Indonesia’s beloved scream queen, Suzzanna, stars in this decidedly demented supernatural revenge thriller which boast not just over-the-top gore set-pieces, but an abundance of slimy creatures, wild plot twists, and even impromptu musical numbers! After poisoning his wife, a local gangster blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric's wife escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives her diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge. (presented from a new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative!)

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Sat Nov 15 - OPEN SCREEN v.8 - Open to all local artists working in experimental, personal, animation and/or non-fiction filmmaking. One submission per person, 15 mins max (shorter is better). No industry aspiring work, please.  (submissions open mid-October!)

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Fri Nov 21 - 16mm Film Showcase (from the collection of No Name Cinema)